In addition to academic essays, I publish in public-facing venues like Bookslut, n+1, Africa in Words, 3:AM Magazine, Public Books, The Conversation, Popula, and Africa Is a Country. Selected links to this writing are below:
Review essay, “On New Zimbabwean Literature,” in n+1‘s OVERTIME issue, Winter 2019.
Contributor to “Opening the Book: Part I” on the Modernism/modernity Process blog, December 2018.
Short essay, “Obituary for an Aura,” on Popula, August 2018.
Review, “Cursed Masculinity,” of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu, Public Books, July 2017.
Class Interview with South African writer Masande Ntshanga on Brittle Paper, March 2017.
Review of Mike McCormack’s Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones in 3:AM Magazine, January 2017.
Review essay “Doing Philosophy Better” on Mark de Silva’s Square Wave, n+1, August 2016.
Essay, “Farewell to Pnin: The End of the Comp Lit Era,” 3:AM Magazine, July 2016.
Interview with Tendai Huchu in Bookslut, March 2016.
Review essay on “The South African Novel of Ideas,” n+1, October 2015.
Essay, “The South African State of Emergency,” Africa in Words, May 2015.
Essay on the PEN/Charlie Hebdo protest, “Against Cosmo-conscientiousness,” n+1, May 2015.
Essay and Interview with Emmanuel Sigauke, founder of Munyori Literary Journal, Bookslut, May 2015.
Review of the first McGregor Poetry Festival, Art South Africa, September 2013.
Review of The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, Bookslut, March 2013.
Review of How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright, Bookslut, September 2012.
Review of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn, Bookslut, March 2011.
Review of To Hell with Cronjé by Ingrid Winterbach, Bookslut, February 2011.
Review of the Showtime television drama Brotherhood, New Haven Review, January 2011.
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