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Welcome!

I’m sharing some recent pieces I’ve edited on this page. Stay tuned for more!

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Where Egos Dare
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Where Egos Dare

Hannah Zeavin on the secret history of a psychoanalytic cult.

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Radical Attention
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Radical Attention

Moira Donegan on pioneering therapist Judith Herman’s studies of trauma and justice. From the Summer 2023 issue of Bookforum.

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Corps Values
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Corps Values

A biography of George Balanchine shows the fragile contingency of genius. Siobhan Phillips in the DEC/JAN/FEB 2023 issue of Bookforum.

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Liz Kid
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Liz Kid

Charlie Tyson on Darryl Pinckney and Elizabeth Hardwick. From the SEP/OCT/NOV 2022 issue of Bookforum.

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Sticky Fictions
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Sticky Fictions

Tarpley Hitt on Kerry Howley’s nuanced portraits of whistleblowers and other deep-state dissidents. From Bookforum.com.

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Good as Hell
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Good as Hell

Johanna Fateman on the intoxicating gloom of Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction. From the SUMMER 2020 issue of Bookforum.

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She Drew the Hallelujah
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She Drew the Hallelujah

Rawiya Kameir on Daphne A. Brooks’s revelatory history of Black women artists. From the JUNE/JULY/AUG 2021 issue of Bookforum.

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A Heart Is Not a Nation
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A Heart Is Not a Nation

Confronting the age of hate in America. Jeff Sharlet in the DEC/JAN/FEB 2021 issue of Bookforum.

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LOOP Magazine, Issue 1
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LOOP Magazine, Issue 1

I was the associate editor for artist and musician Jason Moran’s Loop magazine, Issue 1.

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