Other Writing

Recent Reviews

Gifted, by Suzumi Suzuki, translated by Allison Markin Powell. Words Without Borders, October 28, 2024.
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal, translated by Robin Moger. Full Stop, September 23, 2024.
Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno. Atmospheric Quarterly, Spring 2024.
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq. Words Without Borders, September 7, 2023.

All reviews for Foreword Reviews are available here.

2017

Abandon Me, by Melissa Febos, and Dear Friend, My Life I Write to You in Your Life, by Yiyun Lee. Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2017
Too Much and Not the Mood, by Durga Chew-Bose. Kenyon Review, Fall 2017

2016

Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, by Louise De Salvo; Mysteries of Love and Grief, by Sandra Scofield; and The Latter Days: A Memoir, by Judith Fre: eman. Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2016.
Everywhere I Look, by Helen Garner. Open Letters Monthly, December 2016
The Art of Waiting, by Belle Boggs. The Rumpus, October 2016
Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye. Full Stop, July 2016
One Hundred Twenty-One Days, by Michèle Audin. Full Stop, June 2016
Violation: Collected Essays, by Sallie Tisdale. Bookslut, May 2016
The Red Parts, by Maggie Nelson. Open Letters Monthly, April 2016
Why We Write About Ourselves, edited by Meredith Maran. The Rumpus, March 2016
The Loss of All Lost Things, by Amina Gautier. Necessary Fiction, March 2016
The Kindness of Enemies, by Leila Aboulela. Bookslut, March/April 2016
Now and At the Hour of Our Death, by Susana Moreira Marques. Full Stop, January 2016

2015

Home, by Leila Chudori. Full Stop, November, 2015
The Odd Woman and the City, by Vivian Gornick. Open Letters Monthly, October 2015
Who Do You Love, by Jennifer Weiner. Open Letters Monthly, October 2015
The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr. The Seattle Review of Books, September 2015
Negroland, by Margo Jefferson. Bookslut, September/October 2015
Loving Day, by Mat Johnson. Full Stop, September 2015
Queen of Flowers and Pearls, by Gabriella Ghermandi. Necessary Fiction, July 2015
The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson. Shiny New Books, July 2015
Hausfrau, by Jill Alexander Essbaum. Open Letters Monthly, June 2015
This House of Grief, by Helen Garner. Bookslut, May 2015
Dear Thief, by Samantha Harvey. Full Stop, April 2015.
Apocalypse Baby, by Virginie Despentes. Full Stop, April 2015.
The Fall of Language in the Age of English, by Minae Mizumura. The Quarterly Conversation, March 2015
What Days Are For: A Memoir, by Robert Dessaix. Bookslut, March 2015
Self-Portrait in Green, by Marie NDiaye. Necessary Fiction, February 2015
Fog Island Mountains, by Michelle Bailat-Jones. Shiny New Books, January 2015
Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward. Shiny New Books, January 2015

2014

2011 and earlier

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne, by Sarah Bakewell. The Quarterly Conversation, March 2011
How to Escape From a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique. Necessary Fiction, February 2011
A Jury of Her Peers, by Elaine Showalter. The Quarterly Conversation, October 2009
The Winner of Sorrow, by Brian Lynch. The Quarterly Conversation, 2009