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Selected Essays & Reviews
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2023:
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The ghosts of California’s utopian experiments in Los Angeles Times
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'A Paradise With No Country': On Homero Aridjis in Poetry
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2022:
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Carceral architecture is everywhere in L.A. in Los Angeles Times
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New ceilings for new clouds: On Les Murray in Times Literary Supplement
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Will We Share The Same Dismal Fate As Glaciers and Forests?' in High Country News
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What Is This That's Happening Now? On Bernadette Mayer in Poetry
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2021:
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'Family Matters: An essay on the Inheritance of Fascism' in Triple Canopy
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'We Are Still Here: On The Norton Anthology of Native Nations' in Poetry
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'We Miss You Every Day: The Michael Marks Awards' in Times Literary Supplement
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'Inaugural Editorial', in Summer 2021 Issue of Poetry London
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2020:
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'Leave or Die: Migrant rights and the Arabian Dream' in The Baffler
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'Shall We Gather at the River? On Lewis MacAdams' in Poetry
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'The Mind, like the Night, Has a Thousand Eyes: On Joseph & Berssenbrugge' in Poetry
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'African Exiles in The Heart of a Stranger' in Poetry
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'The Weight of Certain News: On Garous Abdolmalekian' in Poetry
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2019:
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'You’ll Never Leave: Seeking Salvation on the Shores of Morocco' in World Literature Today
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'The Borderless Empire of the Interior': On Dorn, Yang & Xie in Poetry
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'Blue In Name Only: On the Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike' in The Believer
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‘The Elusive Neutron: On Stephen Jonas & Robert Lowell' in Poetry
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'Dear Los Angeles: A Happening City' in Financial Times
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'The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction' in Literary Hub
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'Exile: Part I', 'Exile: Part II' and 'Exile: Part III' in PN Review
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2018:
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'As one of Abu Dhabi’s unofficial citizens, when will I get to call my country home?' in New Statesman
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'Angels and Wildfires: On California's Inmate Firefighters' in Harper's
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'In 1917, corporate America deported more than 1,000 striking miners' in New Statesman
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'Fighting For Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh's Capital' in Playboy
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'"Translation Is the Opposite of War": A Tribute to Sarah Maguire' in World Literature Today
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'The Erotic Arab Emirates: The Lush Land of Sex Work' in Playboy
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Pre-2018:
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'Acts of Treason: For Rian Malan, seeking atonement doesn’t mean one will attain it' in The Nation
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'The Dying Grass' shows the dark side of the American dream' in New Statesman
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'Tyrant's rants: imagining the final hours of Muammar Gaddafi' in New Statesman
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'The "Romance" of Travel: Joseph Roth’s hotel years' in The Paris Review Daily
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'The Art of Walid Siti: A vision of the future' in The Economist
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'Spina’s Shadow: Darling, this is Alessandro Spina' in The Nation
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'The Post-Šalamunian Period: Remembering Tomaž Šalamun' in The Paris Review Daily
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'Dhaka Stories: K. Anis Ahmed’s stringent tales of life in the sprawling capital' in The Nation
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'The Sceptre And The Pen: A novelist writes on the country’s present trials' in The Caravan
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'Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment' in The Nation
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'New Myths: Sir Harrison Birtwistle and David Harsent’s operas' in The Paris Review Daily
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