Essays and conversations

The Critic’s ‘I’ New Literary History winter 2024

Dam Nation Liberties winter 2024

Elizabeth Hardwick’s ‘I’ The Point winter 2023

Reckoning with Middle Age and Complicity: A Conversation with Dana Spiotta The Yale Review fall 2022

How to Milk Granta, August 17, 2022

“Knowingness as an obstacle to love”: A Conversation with Johanna Winant LARB, May 8, 2022

See What I See: A Conversation with Jessica Swoboda The Point, March 22, 2022

On Going Outside The Yale Review, December 13, 2021

The Overconfidence Man Dilettante Army Fall 2021

How to Come Back to Life The Yale Review, Summer 2021

The Lucid Stillness of His Style Contemporaries at post45, May 26, 2021

Mind Games Berfrois, May 7, 2020

Debunking Debunked Aeon.co, August 12, 2019

Up in the Air: Charles Durant and the Clairvoyants LA Review of Books Quarterly Journal, April 2019

Modernity’s Residues The Immanent Frame, March 22, 2019

The Secularist Killjoy The Immanent Frame, February 22, 2019

How the Occult Thrived in an Age of Enlightenment IAI News, March 12, 2019

A Brief Introduction to Credulity The Revealer, September 10, 2018

Donald Trump, Mesmerist New York Times op-ed, Sunday Review, August 5, 2018

'Tis he! The ass foretold me in my dream! Lapham's Quarterly Online, July 19, 2018