Selected Writing
(a full list of writing is available here)
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On the life of Robert Hooke for the Times Literary Supplement
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On Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for Sidecar (New Left Review)
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On fact-checking a rumour about Alexandre Kojève and American Spirit cigarettes for Kiosk
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On Deir Yassin and postage stamps for Kiosk
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On Carl Linnaeus, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, and activists who believe that is finally time to rename our species for Cabinet
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On waiting, antechambers, and atriums for ArtReview
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On sex, god, and rocking chairs for The Public Domain Review
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On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
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On the autograph fiend for History Today
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On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
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On nightingale poetry, from Ovid to T. S. Eliot, for Comparative Literature
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On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
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On Don DeLillo for the Cambridge Humanities Review
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On ostentatio genitalium for The Public Domain Review
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On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books
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On Beckett and the animation of containers for Journal of Modern Literature
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On Albrecht Dürer’s pillow studies for Nemunas (Lithuanian translation by Aistė M. Grajauskaitė)
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On Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica for El Món d’Ahir (Catalan translation by Laura Gas)
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On Buddhist texts for the illiterate for The Public Domain Review (French adaptation, Italian translation by Emanuela Alverà)
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On vowels and the sirens’ song for World Picture Journal