Selected Writing
Books That Speak of Books: On The Name of the Rose, and solving a mystery with a little history [History News Network]
Sketching a Future: Interview with designer and playwright Dina Harris [Yiddish Book Center]
The Beautiful and the Ambitious: Reading Glossy and Exit Interview [The Culture We Deserve]
Feels Like Fate: The blurring of life and fiction in Graham Greene and Alain-Fournier [Astra Mag]
Set on Fire: Happy Valley and the mythologizing of colonial Kenya [Lapham’s Quarterly]
A Space Where the Soul Could Go to Rest: The life and work of Jean-Michel Frank [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Journal of the Plague Years: On Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise [Literary Review]
The Heart of the Trouble: On the novels of Gwendoline Riley [Paris Review Daily]
Anita Brookner Was No Latter-Day Jane Austen [Paris Review Daily]
The Great Writer Who Never Wrote: On the life of Stephen Tennant [Paris Review Daily]
Monsieur Bébé: The Brief, Strange Life of Raymond Radiguet [Paris Review Daily]
Feminize Your Canon: A series on the lives and work of underappreciated women authors [Paris Review Daily]
Introduction to Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man [The London Magazine]
The Sad, Short, Brilliant Life of Amy Levy, Victorian Jewish Novelist [Tablet Magazine]
Great Pretenders: In Romain Gary’s family, invention was the necessity of mother and son [Tablet Magazine]
The Man Who Invented Vampires: On The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron [Daily Beast]
Out of the Ash, Sylvia Plath's Legend Rises Anew: The 50th anniversary of The Bell Jar [Salon]
George du Maurier’s Trilby, the novel that gave us ‘Svengali’ [Longreads]