Selected Writing

On the history of emojis for The Telegraph
On Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte for The Public Domain Review
On the life of Robert Hooke for the Times Literary Supplement
On Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for Sidecar (New Left Review, Spanish translation here)
On fact-checking a rumour about Alexandre Kojève and American Spirit cigarettes for Cabinet magazine
On Carl Linnaeus, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, and activists who believe that is finally time to rename our species for Cabinet magazine
On waiting, antechambers, and atriums for ArtReview
On sex, god, and rocking chairs for The Public Domain Review
On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
On the autograph fiend for History Today
On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books

On Albrecht Dürer’s pillow studies for Nemunas (Lithuanian translation by Aistė M. Grajauskaitė)
On Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica for El Món d’Ahir (Catalan translation by Laura Gas)
On the Victorian march of progress for Le Novelliste (French translation by Clément Martin)