Los Angeles Review of Books – The History of English and the Pedagogy of Belonging

I publish many personal and critical essays and book reviews for scholarly and general readers. Here are some recent favorites:

“First Love,” The Yale Review 98 (October 2010): 39-48. 

“The Aquarists,” The Yale Review 105 (January 2018): 75-90.

“The History of English and the Pedagogy of Belonging,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 23, 2019.  

“The Patience of the Hand: On Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power and the Current Crisis,” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 11, 2020. 

“Costumes for our Present” [review essay], The Times Literary Supplement, June 19, 2020, pp. 26-27.