I wrote about Chris Kraus's new novel (not very good, sorry), her lasting influence, and the aesthetic dimension of her landlordism—something played up in her recent work. Autofiction becomes autopay? Enjoy

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For the NYRB, I wrote about Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, a once-neglected modernist monolith and the 20th century's top opium fever dream. My thoughts on what makes it both fascinating and frustrating, as well as the phenomenon of the Great Big Novel.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Late summer special: for The Paris Review, I wrote about Going to the Shakespeare Festival.

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For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the poetry of Natalie Shapero and its midnight-dark humor.

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Nearly everyone praises W.G. Sebald, but by the same turn the way people talk about him is a bit boring: a received idea. Reading his early essays, I tried to think about him—his influences, his strangeness—from the beginning. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

For INQUE, I wrote a bit about retrofuturism—how we look back into the past to look forward—from Edward Bellamy to Philip K. Dick. Every day I think it's a more important category, as blurry history assists our failures of imagination.

I wrote about Joe Brainard, poet, painter, and darling of 1960s and 1970s NYC counterculture. It made me think about a simple, if increasingly difficult question: whom do we make art for? www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

There is a poem I wrote in the Yale Review. Thanks! yalereview.org/article/davi...

I wrote about the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth. And about repetition, plot ("trauma" or otherwise), and how the contemporary novel might rise to the challenges of love.

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I wrote about ecoterror in fiction and film, from Edward Abbey to Rachel Kushner's latest. It's a wide-ranging piece—I'm trying to understand something about the gaps between environmental crisis, violence, and the way we depict both. Anyway, enjoy! thebaffler.com/latest/abbey...