Essays and Reviews
Month to Month (New York Review of Books)
Land Lines: Reality Beyond Realism in the paintings of Edvard Munch (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Tiny Fissures: False Endings and the Daybook Nature of Art (Virginia Quarterly Review)
“Autopsies of Many Kinds”: On The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee (New York Review of Books)
Translators and Alchemists: On the “Interpretive Style” in American Art (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Safe as Houses: Bodies Under Siege in American Art (Virginia Quarterly Review)
The Post That Stays: An Idiosyncratic Journey through the Landscape of American Art (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Learning and Not Learning Abortion (n+1)
Where does it hurt? (The New York Review of Books)
One Mind Humming (interview with The New York Review of Books)
The Physician as Patient (The Yale Review)
Song Cycle: “The Instilling” by James Merrill, set to music by Daron Hagen (Poetry Society of America)
On Naming and Counting (Poetry)
On Gifts and Heroes (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
“Dwelling Outside the Camp”: on Pam Fessler’s Carville’s Cure (Wall Street Journal)
“Wakefulness Without Rest'“: on Samantha Harvey’s The Shapeless Unease (Wall Street Journal)
Coronavirus has given doctors a new job: palliative care (Washington Post)
Cannon Fodder (Yale Review)
“Mysterious and Infinitely Solitary”: on Silvina Ocampo (New York Review of Books)
What “Distributive Justice” Means for Doctors Treating COVID-19 (New York Review of Books NYRDaily)
Styles of Radical Illness (Yale Review)
Bassani the Memorious (The New York Review of Books)
Memoirs of a Fox (American Poetry Review)
My Own Private Stromboli (New England Review)
Once Bitten (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Pages (Agni)
‘Lampedusa’ Review: Spotting the Leopard (Wall Street Journal)
‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ Review: Wishing and Waiting (Wall Street Journal)
‘Under the Knife’ Review: The Kindest Cuts (Wall Street Journal)
‘Heart: A History’ Review: At The Bleeding Edge (Wall Street Journal)
‘When Death Becomes Life’ Review: Doctors and Donors (Wall Street Journal)
‘An Elegant Defense’ Review: Cells that Keep the Body Sound (Wall Street Journal)
Fresh Fire: on Charles Wright and Robert Pinsky (Idiom)
A Company of Ghosts by Christopher Middleton (Bookforum)
Fiction
Rabbits (Gettysburg Review)
Crimes of Paris (winner of the Iowa Review Prize)
Poor Historian (The Literary Review)
Audio
On The Nocturnists podcast with Emily Silverman
On the public radio program With Good Reason
On Montana Public Radio’s The Write Question
An interview, audio clip, and some Whitman rewrites at Brooklyn Poets
On This Is Your Brain with Dr. Phil Stieg: “COVID’s Invisible Bullet”
Quoted and “followed” in “April 15, 2020: A Coronavirus Chronicle” (The New Yorker)
On The New Yorker Radio Hour: “A City At the Peak of Crisis”
Poetry
The Scarecrow (The Yale Review)
Keeping House (Harper’s)
Seven Weeks (The New Yorker)
Simple (The New Yorker)
Granville in July; The Double Life (Alaska Quarterly Review)
Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care (The New York Times Magazine; Best American Poetry 2022)
Intensive Care (The New York Review of Books)
Little Pharma on Rooms (The Nation)
Little Pharma Encounters the Spine (Poetry)
The Tower, Little Pharma as Lady Macbeth, Little Pharma Sees Ghosts (Conjunctions)
The Fall (Colorado Review)
Brothers (Plume)
Cutting-Pond (Ecotone)
The Apparatus (Southwest Review)
Imagining Marriage [#36] (Yale Review)
Thanks to Leibniz, Putative Father of Topology (Yale Review)
Garter, Copper, Water (Prairie Schooner)
Dissecting Blade (Kenyon Review)
Cadaver 28 (Alaska Quarterly Review)
Imagining Marriage [#52] (Agni)
Imagining Marriage [#1] (The Awl)
Little Pharma (Bombay Gin)
The Countable (Bombay Gin)
Sometimes when I leave the lab what’s outside… (Winter Tangerine Review)
Classic Rock (Cincinnati Review)
Calisthenics (Rattle)
On Lost Art (Denver Quarterly)
Shades Pulled Down (Denver Quarterly)
The Joy Of (Colorado Review)
My Life as a Man (Colorado Review)
Answers for Piercers (Tammy)
Crime Times (Smartish Pace)
Vacation sonnet (The Awl)
Other people’s boyfriends (The Awl)
Fatti Maschii Parole Femine (Blackbird)
Planting (Blackbird)
Home Alone (Puerto del Sol)
Puck in Oncology (Devil’s Lake)
Self-Portrait as Marianne Moore at her mother’s funeral (Shenandoah)
Chore Chart (Slice)
Fantasy Football (DIAGRAM)
Kombucha Mother (Ghost Town)
Danger Bird (Ghost Town)
I Thought It Was Yours (Cimarron Review)
Meditation on the Sickle Cell (Hospital Drive)