Selected Writing
“New Money,” The New York Review of Books
In the Middle Ages, a new merchant class was forced into a spiritual reckoning.
“Pressure at the Seam,” Commonweal
On Hanne Ørstavik’s novel The Pastor and twentieth-century narratives of priests contra modernity.
“Iris Origo’s Wartime Diaries,” The Paris Review
A reappraisal of the writer Iris Origo and her diaries of World War II in Italy.
“How Not to Be Forgotten,” The Paris Review
On the legacy of Esphyr Slobodkina, one of America’s first abstract expressionists.
“The Way Egon Schiele Saw the World,” Apollo Magazine
Egon Schiele’s modern melancholy can be more fully understood by looking at his landscapes.
“To Infinity with David Caspar Friedrich,” Apollo Magazine