How beautiful are these book covers! In Baltimore next week? Don't miss his one-of-a-kind reading that brings together poets, prose writers, and translators from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States.

Join us tomorrow in Baltimore! It's going to be an incredible night.

FLESH very quickly became one of my favorite books of all time, and I love this review of it. That it moves like a night train and that you will feel it in your bones is absolutely true. therumpus.net/2025/06/25/o...

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.