nonfiction
On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye / The New Yorker 2025
“Her sense of the world is epicurean, defensive, and slightly wretched, yet she doesn’t conceive of these last as any kind of tragedy.”
Porn / The Point 2025
“Does the explicitly dirty always look like exploitation? Are we really that Victorian?”
Would you rather have married young? / The Metropolitan Review 2025
“Can a girl no longer have a worthwhile amount of fun if she avoids getting married before she’s twenty-five?”
Eleven editions of HIGHER GOSSIP at ThePointMag.com 202
A sex and love advice column directed not toward the question “what should I do?,” but rather, “how should I think?”
On Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo / Washington Post 2024
“When we read a Sally Rooney novel, we feel that we too are occupying a severe, cold, judgmental world…”
What is the read receipt for? / Granta 2024
“Each theater of communication has its own assumptions and rules of play.”
stories
Travesty / The New Yorker 2025
“No thought was so devastating to Prima as the thought that she was ascribing wisdom and seriousness to something that would turn out to be stupid.” Audio
Isabel / Granta 2024
“The lives of girls like Diana would have been infinitely easier, if only one girl that everyone envied had stood up and said, It’s me you’re talking about.”
Your Hand, Your Dog / Joyland 2020
“I could feel the upper hand entering and deserting me in turns: at restaurants when N paid the bill, at parties where I knew more women.”