Some recent writing

Because God Did Not Relax: The difficult pleasures of William Gaddis—Harper’s Magazine, November 2020

Difficulties Everywhere: Can Kierkegaard tell us how to live?—Harper’s Magazine, May 2020

How to Read the Bible: The Gospel according to John (and Karen)—Harper’s Magazine, November 2019

Mallo My!: Spain’s answer to Knausgaard arrives in English—Harper’s Magazine, March 2019

The Myth of Progress: On John Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism—The New York Review of Books, February 2019

Ove and Out: Knausgaard’s struggle comes to an end—Harper’s Magazine, October 2018