Book Reviews and Literary Criticism
Essays​
True Crime and Its Discontents, Thriller Thursday Substack
Ten Feminist Crime Novels Subverting the Dead Girl Trope, Electric Literature
The Age of Disenchantment, Writer's Digest
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Interviews
Kat Davis Talks Pop Culture, Internet Obsessions, and the Dark Fairy Tale of Childhood, CrimeReads
A Life of Books, Debutiful
Darkness from the Past Intruding on the Present, Fresh Fiction
Q&A: The Nerd Daily
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Book Reviews
Art Monster, Southwest Review.
In Praise of Messy Creation, Southwest Review.
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​Chicago Review of Books (Selected)
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Power and Uncertainty in Marie NDiaye's Vengeance is Mine
Bodies and Open Spaces in Oksana Vasyakina's Wound
Language, Gender, and Power in Brenda Lozano's Witches
Confronting the Grief of Infertility in Elisa Albert's Human Blues
The Art of the Smith in Ali Smith's Companion Piece
A Form that Can Hold and Transform in Sarah Manguso's Very Cold People
Lucy Lurie Tells Her Story in Fiona Snycker's Lacuna
Writing in the Unspeakable in Preti Taneja's Aftermath
Depression and Desertion in Claire Vaye Watkins's I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Migration. Exile, and Translation" Mariana Oliver's Migratory Birds
Elusive Freedom in Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie
Belonging and Metaphysical Horror in Marie NDiaye's That Time of Year
The Creation of Culture in The Sprawl
Identity and Community in Catherine Lacey's Pew
Class and Religion Collide in Megha Majumdar's A Burning
A Twist on Tolstoy in Carmen Boullosa's The Book of Anna
Translating the Unsaid: EJ Koh's The Magical Language of Others
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's Scary Fairy Tales, The Ploughshares Blog
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, The Ploughshares Blog
Tending the Shared Garden of Immunity, The Ploughshares Blog