Prose

"Reflections on an Icon," at Oregon Humanities

"For Alison," at Avidly

"I Don't Speak for Laura," in The New York Times. 

At Essay Daily:

"Voice and its Uses: On Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk" (part 1 of 2)

"Vesper Flights and the Technology of Revelation" (part 2 of 2)

"Reasons for Naming: On Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias"

At Tin House online:

The Art of the Sentence: On Elizabeth Bishop

The Art of the Sentence: John McPhee's Geology

“Like the Emperor’s New Clothes, DNA Kits are a Tailored Illusion.” Aeon. May 13, 2019.

"A Child with Down Syndrome Keeps His Place at the Table." New York Times, January 25, 2013. 

"Immunization Status of Magic Kingdom Celebrities."  McSweeney's Internet Tendency.