Book Reviews
Southern Discomfort: Bryan Washington’s Lot, Bookforum, April 2019
Notes from the Interior: Shane McCrae’s The Gilded Auction Block, Poetry Foundation, February 2019
How Does It Feel?: Casey Gerald’s There Will Be No Miracles Here, Bookforum, December 2018
Sleepwalking: Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, The Nation, October 25, 2018
White Noise: The Battle of Charlottesville, One Year Later, Bookforum, September 2018
The Crushing Sorrow of Barracoon, Slate, June 7, 2018
Tournament of Books: White Tears vs. The Idiot, The Morning News, March 9, 2018
Crossing Borders: Zadie Smith's Feel Free, The Nation, March 6, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Uneasy Hope, The New Republic, October 26, 2017
Traumatized Ghosts: Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing, Slate, September 18, 2017
Second Sight: Teju Cole's Blind Spot, Slate, June 15, 2017
The Anti-Polemicist: Durga Chew-Bose's Too Much and Not the Mood, Slate, April 14, 2017
On Pressing Closer: Brit Bennett's The Mothers, The Millions, October 25, 2016
Criticism
Mastering Effects: Podcasts and the Authoritarian Voice, Open Space, January 16, 2019
How Jean Toomer Rejected the Black-White Binary, The Paris Review, January 14, 2019
The Pulitzers Awarded Kendrick Lamar for the Wrong Reasons, Slate, April 20, 2018
White Supremacy and the Dangerous Discourse of Liberal Tolerance, The Paris Review, February 13, 2018
Cornel West's Reckless Criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Slate, December 20, 2017
America Has a Long History of Racist Mob Violence, The New Republic, August 23, 2017
Mo Money, Mo Problems, American Experience, August 4, 2017
The Misunderstood Ghost of James Baldwin, Slate, February 14 2017
Frank Ocean and the Black Male Body, The Millions, October 4, 2016
On Ava DuVernay, Public Books, February 25, 2016
Like it's Just You and Me: Hurricane Katrina and Kanye's Broken Language, Avidly, September 1, 2015
From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 14, 2014
Non-fiction
Walking in Los Angeles, Open Space, January 8, 2018
Year in Reading 2017, The Millions, December 10, 2017
On Seeing Blackness, Real Life Magazine, May 3, 2017
An Unbearable Tension: On James Baldwin and the Nation of Islam, Catapult, January 24, 2017
Year in Reading 2016, The Millions, December 17, 2016
Interviews
Secrets of the Book Critics, Literary Hub, May 30, 2018
The Internet Was Built as a Weapon: The Millions Interviews Jarett Kobek, The Millions, May 4, 2017
Thinking Another Person's Thoughts: The Millions Interviews Brit Bennett, The Millions, March 28, 2017
'We can work harder to mourn': a Q&A with Grief is the Thing With Feathers author Max Porter, ZYZZYVA, August 18, 2016
'If you're going to tell the story of slavery, I'm going to listen all day': a Q&A with Homegoing author Yaa Gyasi, ZYZZYVA, July 21, 2016