selected fiction


“Shoot” /  Washington Square Review

“Life Drawing” / Ambit

“The Swimmer & the Swan” / Charles Moffett gallery

“Ricky & Marbella” / Rougarou

“The Future” / Low Theory

“Flesh Marks” / DreamsTimeFree



selected nonfiction, journalism, & criticism


On writers who rise and fizzle / “The Radiant Force of the Incline” / The Believer

On the erotics of reading  / “Thick With Her Own Threads” / LA Review of Books

On culinary doppelgängers / “How Food Travels Across Cultures” / Ruby Tandoh x Factory International

On alchemical artmaking / “Bharti Kher at Yorkshire Sculpture Park” / Financial Times

On desire paths / “Sustaining a Creative Life in an Unwelcoming World” / Washington Post

On the end of the land /  “Sacrifice Zone” / The Believer

On radical drapes /  “Why I Am Taking the Sari Back to the Street” / Vogue

On keeping a cake / “The Expired Oreo Cake That Loved Me” / VICE

On decrees to disappear / “A Non-Place by the Sea” / Guernica

On blur and grain / “Daido Moriyama” /  Artforum

On Pompeiian appetites / T: The New York Times Style Magazine

On Maggie Nelson / Washington Post

On angst and thrill / “Egon Schiele” / Frieze

On the lost language of nature /  Washington Post

On architecture and transformation in Rwanda / Matador

On Norse paganism /  Religion Unplugged

On Islamic environmentalism / Religion Unplugged

On reverie and antagonism / “Cinga Samson” /  T: The New York Times Style Magazine

On extreme silhouettes / T: The New York Times Style Magazine

On rooms for dreaming / “Bethan Laura Wood” / T: The New York Times Style Magazine

On female artists from South Asia / T: The New York Times Style Magazine

On climate change & William T. Vollmann / Washington Post

On forgiveness and memory in Rwanda / Matador



selected interviews


Siri Hustvedt / Guernica

Claudia Rankine / Guernica

Alexis Okeowo / Guernica

Masha Gessen / Guernica

Eric Asimov / Guernica

Rana Ayyub / Adi

Afrah Nasser / Adi