‘Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students’ (2024)
An excerpt from the final chapter of my book in LitHub, describing a period of five years spent teaching literature in prisons in New Jersey.
‘Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed’ (2024)
An essay for Jacobin about the significance of poetry in dark times.
An article for the Literary Review on the 350th anniversary of the final publication of Paradise Lost.
‘Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost’ (2023)
An article exploring the possible influence of Milton’s epic on the Barbie movie, published by Lit Hub.
An essay for Effects on minimalist aesthetics and its relationship to the politics of gentrification.
‘“Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry’ (2021)
An essay on the figure of Fortune in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, collected in Fate and Fortune in European Thought, a volume of scholarly essays edited by Ovanes Akopyan.
A pamphlet on the dusk as an object of collective enjoyment, and its prohibition during the lockdown, beautifully printed by Earthbound Press.
A Google Audience review of the film Ratatouille. Still one of the pieces of writing I am proudest of. You can find it if you scroll down long enough.
‘The Art of the Migration Crisis’ (2018)
An essay for Effects journal on four works of contemporary art and literature that attempt to represent the European migration crisis.
Interview: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2017)
An interview with the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto for CNN Style. We spoke about his astonishing images of Italian theatres, his seascapes, climate change, and the Manhattan Westside development.
‘The Wildness of the Day’ (2016)
An essay for The White Review on the new fashion for artificial wildflower meadows in municipal parks, the aesthetics of wildness, and contemporary British politics.
Interview: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2015)
An interview with the painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for The White Review. It was republished in the White Review Art Anthology.
An essay for Tank magazine on the novelist Teju Cole, and his novels’ meditations on New York and Lagos.
‘On Queensway Computer Market’ (2013)
An essay on a second-hand computer market, capitalist obsolescence, and longing, for The White Review.
Interview: Hassan Hajjaj (2012)
An interview with the photographer Hassan Hajjaj, published in The Guardian.