Other Writing

In addition to academic essays, I publish in venues like TLR / The Literary Review, Bookslut, Art South Africa, SLiPnet, LitNet, n+1, Africa in Words, 3:AM Magazine, Public Books, The Conversation, Popula, and the American Comparative Literature Association’s State of the Discipline site. Links to this writing can be found below:

Review, “Africa ‘Without Amnesia’,” of Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s The Theory of Flight, Public Books, July 2019.

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.

Short essay, “New African Literature is Disrupting What Western Presses Prize” at The Conversation – Africa, October 2017.

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, “Americans in Bulgaria,” of Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs To You and Miroslav Penkov’s Stork Mountain, Public Books, October 2016.

Contributor to “After Columbia,” an n+1 roundtable on the NLRB decision to allow graduate student unionization, August 2016.

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.