Life After Ahab: On Rodrigo Fresán’s Melvill (The Metropolitan Review)

The Second Coming of the Sports Novel (Esquire)

After Melville (on the long Melville afterlife) (The Baffler)

Inside Baseball (on the literature of baseball) (The Baffler)

Reality Bites Back (on David Shields) (The Baffler)

Writer on the Storm (on George R. Stewart) (The Baffler)

When We No Longer Believe: On Rachel Cusk’s Second Place (LA Review of Books)

The Lost Promise of the Suburbs (and How to Save Them) (MEL Magazine)

Wandering Ways (on Mary Cappello’s Lecture) (LA Review of Books)

Circling Back to My Failures and Errata: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts (LA Review of Books)

Moving On (on Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book) (Bookforum)

“Because She Meant God and We Meant Something Else”: On Susan Steinberg’s Machine (LA Review of Books)

A Wonder Filled Compendium: On Robert Kirk’s “The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies” (LA Review of Books)

A History of Violence: On “The House of Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide” (Bookforum)

A Mind In Transit: Marina Benjamin on Insomnia (LA Review of Books)

Introduction to James Purdy’s “In a Shallow Grave”

The Work of Historical Witness: Jozef Czapski’s “Lost Time” and “Inhuman Land” (LA Review of Books)

Football for a Buck (Bookforum)

One World Into Another: On Amy Fusselman’s “Idiophone” (LA Review of Books)

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Bookforum)

“Addiction is a Hard Story to Tell”: On Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering” (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

Dix and Dix: On “In a Lonely Place” (Bookforum)

The Limits of Metaphor: Jeannie Vanasco’s “The Glass Eye” (LA Review of Books)

Three Authors in Search of Melville (The Millions)

The South is Sufficiently Haunted: On J.D. Wilkes’ “The Vine that Ate the South” (Electric Literature)

In Sickness and In Health: Mike Scalise and the Illness Narrative (The Millions)

Wolves in Disguise: On Kate Zambreno’s “O Fallen Angel” (Electric Literature)

Looking for Meaning in “Riverine” (The Millions)