I'm thrilled to be working as Editorial Assistant for a collection I have loved for years, and hope you'll follow our countdown to the 40th issue of The Best American Essays! Day 0: From the Front Matter open.substack.com/pub/bestamer...

For @globeopinion.bsky.social, I wrote a piece about gym class names that I hope might add a bit of levity to your day. Massive thanks to the phenomenal Ideas editors for letting me foray into a new space. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

Absolute joy to speak with @nglipson.bsky.social about how her brilliant essays come to life. I wanted our conversation to go on forever. Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social and @andreafirth.bsky.social for giving us the space to explore!

@shubhasunder.bsky.social just won a @whitingfoundation.bsky.social award for "Optional Practical Training," and you can read my review of this exceptional novel here: therumpus.net/2025/04/01/s...

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

@shubhasunder.bsky.social's new novel on immigration transformed my understanding of a lifelong journey - and I'm so grateful to @jbrookewrites.bsky.social and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts and being the 5-star editing team they are. Review out soon!

Thank you @cogwbur.bsky.social and @cloeax.bsky.social for making a home for this piece. Thank you @jangrarup.bsky.social for inspiring it with your underground bunker photograph exhibit. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

My fabulously talented professor Megan Marshall (a Pulitzer winner for her biography work) is coming out with a new book of essays. You can read about them here... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...

Last year, I wrote for @bostonglobe.com about the curse of Lenin's embalmed body. In this week's breaking mausoleum news, Lenin has been advised "to remove Vladimir Lenin's body from a mausoleum in Moscow in order to seal his legacy as Moscow's leader." Ha. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/27/o...

An important piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social as we enter Trump's second term and approach the 3rd warversary in Ukraine. "I Spent Trump’s Inauguration in Ukraine. This Is What I Saw." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

Deeply grateful to @therumpus.net for publishing my review. I hope everyone has a chance to read this extraordinary, laugh-out-loud funny, and devastating memoir. Part Navalny’s life story, part Russia’s, it is also a playbook on resistance that we very much need today.