Criticism:
- “Reckoning with Colombia’s Bloody, Conspiratorial History” The Los Angeles Review of Books 26 Sept 2018
- “A Weeping Trees of His Own” The Rumpus 20 Aug 2018
- “How James Joyce Shaped Brazil’s New Breakout Film, Araby” The Los Angeles Review of Books 14 Aug 2018
- “This Old Man by Roger Angell” The Hopkins Review Spring 2018, 11.2
- “Home is a Hymn” The Los Angeles Review of Books 5 Oct 2017
- “River Change” The Times Literary Supplement 19 April 2017
- “White Tears by Hari Kunzru” The Los Angeles Times 15 March 2017
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“How to Become One” The Los Angeles Review of Books 2 February 2017
- “‘Thus Bad Begins’ by Javier Marías” The Washington Post 27 Oct 2016
- “A Song of Africa” The Economist 22nd October 2016
- “The Head of the Hunter” The Virginia Quarterly Review 92, Issue 03, Summer 2016
- “Slavery and the Weight of the Past” The Los Angeles Review of Books 11 June 2016
- “‘LaRose’ by Louise Erdrich” The Philadelphia Inquirer 20 May 2016
- “Yann Martel’s The High Mountains of Portugal” NYT Book Review14 Feb. 2016
- “One Out of Two by Daniel Sada” The Harvard Review 16 January 2016
- “Ann Beattie’s The State We’re In” Ploughshares Blog 30 October 2015
- “High Windows: José Saramago’s ‘Skylight’” New York Times Book Review16 Jan 2015
- “Love and Land: Ann Packer’s ‘The Children’s Crusade’” The Millions 7 April 2015
- “The Art of Losing: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng” The Kenyon Review 2015
- “‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek” The Washington Post 17 July 2014
- “In These Times The Home Is a Tired Place by Jessica Hollander,” The Rumpus 6 Jan 2014
- “The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee” Prairie Schooner Summer 2014
- “Enon by Paul Harding” The Rumpus 7 October 2013
- “Cold Bucolic Love: A Long Letter from Iceland” The Iowa Review 26 June 2013
Essays:
- “The mill might make steel, but the people don’t” Belt Magazine 5 April 2018
- “The Refugee Woman Who Shaped Brazilian Literature” Electric Literature 27 March 2018
- “6:00 AM Chicken” Ploughshares Winter 2018
- “Into Irons” The Hopkins Review spring 2017
- “The Brazilian Novelist Who Inspired Borges, Márquez, and Amado” Electric Literature 6 June 2017
- “The Many Labors of Philip Levine” The Millions 24 August 2016
- “‘Infinite Jest’ in the Age of Addiction” The Millions 11 July 2016
- “Slavic Village: A Guide” in Cleveland Neighborhood Guide, Belt, June 2016
- “Priced Out: Boston’s Real Estate Boom” WBUR, Cognoscenti 7 2015
- “Odysseus at Telepylos” personal essay in The Rumpus 18 November 2015 (Listed in Best American Essays 2016)
- “The City of Lost Things: Rediscovering Fernando Pessoa” The Millions 23 Sept 2015
Fiction:
- “The Famous Man-Eating Tiger of Chagrin Falls, Ohio,” Fiction, forthcoming.
- “Provincetown,” Joyland 18 Feb 2019
- “The Road to Damascus,” The Masters Review, 16 Nov 2018.