Strawberry Fields, a novel, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (Fence Books, 2018)
Watchfires, a work of nonfiction (Rescue Press, 2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction
They Dragged Them Through the Streets, a novel (FC2, 2013)
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Selected fiction, essays, & poetry
“Work, or the Swet Shop Boys," Granta September 2020
“27 Essays I'm Not Writing About Elizabeth Koch,” online at Fence May 2020
“If you can't think one without the other, you can't think one,” Territory December 2019
“The Novel at the End of the World: An Inquiry,” in the Writer's Notebook November 2019
“Literature, Capital, Catapult, and the Kochs: A Dialogue,” cowritten with Lucy Biederman, online at Fence September 2019
“Narrating Forgetting,” essay in the Brooklyn Rail September 2018
Two poems in TYPO April 2018
“Lions,” Sultan's Seal April 2018
“On Editing: A Work in Address,” Full Stop blog December 2017
“Strawberries,” the Spectacle spring 2016
“Evidence,” Consequence spring 2014
“Occupation,” Modern Language Studies winter 2013; available online here
“Heat, Pressure, Time: Desire, Narrative, Time,” Diagram November 2010
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Selected criticism & interviews
“'I planted the sun in the middle of the sky like a flag': In and of Etel Adnan's Arab Apocalypse,” College Literature 47.3, summer 2020
“Room after Room in The Report,” Los Angeles Review of Books February 2020
“Cancer's Crisis Ordinary: On Anne Boyer's The Undying,” Los Angeles Review of Books November 2019
“Freedom Neither Public nor Private: On Farid Matuk's The Real Horse,” cowritten with Zach Savich, West Branch summer 2019
“Don't Drink the Black Milk: On Ghayath Almadhoun's Adrenalin,” Poetry Northwest June 2018
“As If We Had Been There: On Ghassan Zaqtan's The Silence That Remains,” Poetry Northwest November 2017
“In the Aftermath of Our Language: On Hayan Charara's Something Sinister,” Poetry Northwest December 2016
On The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs, Full Stop November 2016
On Describing the Past by Ghassan Zaqtan, Full Stop September 2016
On The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, Full Stop August 2016
On Eka Kurniawan, Bookforum October 2015
On Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell, Bookforum July 2015
A Conversation with Youssef Rakha, Music and Literature March 2015
“I Am No Longer Me: Amjad Nasser's Land of No Rain,” Music and Literature January 2015
“Feral, Exacting, Radiant: An Interview with Sarah Blackman,” Fanzine May 2014
“Torture Unimagined: On Peter Dimock’s George Anderson,” Los Angeles Review of Books July 2013
“The Ballad Form: Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling,” Kenyon Review Online summer 2013
“Despite My Bunkered Heart: Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville,” Kenyon Review Online fall 2010
Watchfires, a work of nonfiction (Rescue Press, 2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction
They Dragged Them Through the Streets, a novel (FC2, 2013)
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Selected fiction, essays, & poetry
“Work, or the Swet Shop Boys," Granta September 2020
“27 Essays I'm Not Writing About Elizabeth Koch,” online at Fence May 2020
“If you can't think one without the other, you can't think one,” Territory December 2019
“The Novel at the End of the World: An Inquiry,” in the Writer's Notebook November 2019
“Literature, Capital, Catapult, and the Kochs: A Dialogue,” cowritten with Lucy Biederman, online at Fence September 2019
“Narrating Forgetting,” essay in the Brooklyn Rail September 2018
Two poems in TYPO April 2018
“Lions,” Sultan's Seal April 2018
“On Editing: A Work in Address,” Full Stop blog December 2017
“Strawberries,” the Spectacle spring 2016
“Evidence,” Consequence spring 2014
“Occupation,” Modern Language Studies winter 2013; available online here
“Heat, Pressure, Time: Desire, Narrative, Time,” Diagram November 2010
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Selected criticism & interviews
“'I planted the sun in the middle of the sky like a flag': In and of Etel Adnan's Arab Apocalypse,” College Literature 47.3, summer 2020
“Room after Room in The Report,” Los Angeles Review of Books February 2020
“Cancer's Crisis Ordinary: On Anne Boyer's The Undying,” Los Angeles Review of Books November 2019
“Freedom Neither Public nor Private: On Farid Matuk's The Real Horse,” cowritten with Zach Savich, West Branch summer 2019
“Don't Drink the Black Milk: On Ghayath Almadhoun's Adrenalin,” Poetry Northwest June 2018
“As If We Had Been There: On Ghassan Zaqtan's The Silence That Remains,” Poetry Northwest November 2017
“In the Aftermath of Our Language: On Hayan Charara's Something Sinister,” Poetry Northwest December 2016
On The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs, Full Stop November 2016
On Describing the Past by Ghassan Zaqtan, Full Stop September 2016
On The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, Full Stop August 2016
On Eka Kurniawan, Bookforum October 2015
On Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell, Bookforum July 2015
A Conversation with Youssef Rakha, Music and Literature March 2015
“I Am No Longer Me: Amjad Nasser's Land of No Rain,” Music and Literature January 2015
“Feral, Exacting, Radiant: An Interview with Sarah Blackman,” Fanzine May 2014
“Torture Unimagined: On Peter Dimock’s George Anderson,” Los Angeles Review of Books July 2013
“The Ballad Form: Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling,” Kenyon Review Online summer 2013
“Despite My Bunkered Heart: Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville,” Kenyon Review Online fall 2010
