Book Reviews
- 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
- 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