Essay: “The Grammar of Exile” (on the migration crisis in Italy), Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2022
Short Story: “The Submerged,” The American Scholar, Winter 2021
Essay/Criticism: “Rhetorical Questions: On Long Live Latin and the Evolution of Style,” 3/10/20, LA Review of Books
Criticism: “Naked Truths: The Uncertain Future of Kazakhstan,” Times Literary Supplement, April 2019
Reporting: “Manhood,” article on penis theft in west Africa, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2018
Essay/Criticism: “The Agony and Ecstasy of Escape” (on Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne), Granta.com (Feb. 2018)
(also syndicated in The Guardian series The Long Read, 8/15/17, and NoSports, German sporting magazine, Feb. 2018)
Reporting: “The Back Way and the Way Back,” article on Gambian politics and culture, Granta.com, March 28, 2017
Oral History/Reporting: “Across the Line,” The New York Times Magazine, 6/24/16
Criticism: “Book of a Year” (essay on Lionel Trilling), Granta.com, 1/2/16
Criticism: “The Allure of Ugliness” (essay/criticism on the novels of Peter Stamm), The New Republic, 12/17/14
Essay: “Pain” (personal essay), Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2014
(also published in The Guardian, 1/4/15, listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015)
Essay: “Where It All Went Wrong” (personal essay), The Paris Review Daily, Nov. 15, 2012
All online and in-print publications
Fiction
“The Submerged,” The American Scholar, Winter 2021
“Black Car,” Granta.com, Oct. 23rd, 2019
Excerpt from Daphne, Narrative, Feb. 2018
“The Girl Behind the Wall,” Heck, Spring 2016
“The Tastemaker,” The Pinch, Spring 2012
“Sitting In,” Narrative, Oct. 2011
“Lost Coast,” ZYZZYVA, Fall 2011
(also appeared in California Prose Directory, 2013, anthology, Outpost 19 Books)
“Power Ballads,” The Literarian/Center for Fiction, Sept. 2011
“Beginners,” The American Scholar, Fall 2011
(listed as a Notable Story in Best American Short Stories 2012)
“Mad Dog’s Daughter,” Salon.com, Aug. 29th, 2011
“Dead Weight,” Storyglossia 46, July 2011
“Mr. Fern, Freestyle,” Five Points, July 2011
“At the Center of the Sailing World,” Narrative, April 2011
“Coda,” Narrative, November 2010
“Sidemen,” Fivechapters, Winter 2009
“Diplomats,” Glimmer Train 69, Winter 2009
“Weather Enough,” Best New American Voices 2009, Harcourt
(also appeared in Mississippi Review, Autumn 2007)
“In the Leaves,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2006
“Rations” and “The Man on Am Street,” The Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2005
“As Is,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2004
Non-fiction
“The Grammar of Exile” (on the migration crisis in Italy), Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2022
“Rhetorical Questions: On Long Live Latin and the Evolution of Style,” 3/10/20, LA Review of Books
“Naked Truths: The Uncertain Future of Kazakhstan,” Times Literary Supplement, April 2019
“Manhood,” article on penis theft in west Africa, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2018
“The Agony and Ecstasy of Escape” (on Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne), Granta.com (Feb. 2018)
“A Kingdom for a Horse,” long-form article on nomadic sports in Kazakhstan, Virginia Quarterly Review,
Summer 2017 (also syndicated in The Guardian series The Long Read, 8/15/17, and NoSports, German sporting magazine, Feb. 2018)
“The Back Way and the Way Back,” article on Gambian politics and culture, Granta.com, March 28, 2017
“Across the Line,” The New York Times Magazine, 6/24/16
“The Jungle May Be Finished, It’s Spirit Should Be Remembered” (on the Calais “Jungle”), Migration
Stories (anthology), forthcoming
“Letter to a Stranger” (personal essay), Off Assignment, 12/22/16
“Reading Lessons” (criticism), The American Scholar
“Book of a Year” (essay on Lionel Trilling), Granta.com, 1/2/16
“The Allure of Ugliness” (essay/criticism on the novels of Peter Stamm), The New Republic, 12/17/14
“Five Tips for Writing a Memoir” (essay on writing), Publisher’s Weekly, 12/5/14
“After the Green Death” (feature on spirit possession festivals in Burma), Guernica, Nov. 15, 2014
“Lost and Found” (personal essay), Parade, Oct. 19, 2014
“Overdue” (personal essay), Narrative, Sept. 15, 2014
“I Couldn’t Finish My Brother’s Story” (personal essay/essay on writing), Salon.com, Sept. 15, 2014
“Archeology,” (personal essay/fiction hybrid), Gulf Coast, Spring 2014
“Pain” (personal essay), Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2014
(also published in The Guardian, 1/4/15, listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015)
“A School for Brooklyn’s Youngest Hipsters” (article on music education), newyorker.com, May 12, 2014
Critical piece on Edward P. Jones, New American Canon anthology, University of Iowa Press, forthcoming
“Where It All Went Wrong” (personal essay), The Paris Review Daily, Nov. 15, 2012
“England, Why England?” New Writing (University of East Anglia), Winter 2011
“Enduring Thanksgiving,” (personal essay/op-ed), The New York Times, Nov. 24, 2011
“Cutting Out the Bad Bits” (essay on writing), Glimmer Train/Writer’s Ask, Sept. 2011
“Girl Power Goes to the Beach?” (essay, cultural criticism), iris, Fall 2005
“Interview with Lydia Davis” (interview), Meridian
Various reviews and criticism have appeared in Outside, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New
York Times Book Review