Essays


Island Writing (Anne Serre's eggshell of infinite space)

The Baffler, 2023

The Everything Book

Reading modern epic fantasy in the context of the ancient oral epic for Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy, 2023

On the joy of quoting. One of a series of four brief essays for Poets & Writers, 2022

Tank, 2022

Catapult, 2017

Lit Hub, 2016

Weird Fiction Review, 2013

Weird Fiction Review, 2012

This is the closest I’ve come to a manifesto. Poets & Writers, 2022

Poets & Writers, 2022

Poets & Writers, 2022

The White Review, 2021

ArabLit Quarterly, 2018

The Paris Review Daily, 2017; Japanese translation by Ichida Izumi, Waseda Bungaku, 2018

The New Inquiry, 2015

LA Review of Books, 2015