Selected Other Writing

Fiction

‘Zooplastic’, Zoetrope: All Story, Fall 2025 [Paywall]

‘Casualties’, Mascara Literary Review, January 2023

‘Archival Technics’, The Johannesburg Review of Books, December 2021

‘Heretics’, Zoetrope: All Story, Summer 2017 [Paywall]

‘Interior: Monkeyboy’, Granta, Summer 2016 [Paywall]

Poetry

‘When I Was Isabelle Huppert (I-VI)’, Coastlines, 2025

‘Letter to an Evolutionary Zoologist’, The Southern Review, Spring 2021 [Paywall]

Essay

‘Hermit Walking’ in The Hopkins Review, ‘A Folio on Walking’, Summer 2023

‘Queer Influencers: Hujar and Warhol’ - Exhibition essay for ‘Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media’, at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 2023

‘“Why try / to revive the lyric”: Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss’ - The Chicago Review, November 2021

‘Fence Me In’ - on re-reading William Maxwell’s ‘They Came Like Swallows’ in the age of Covid-19

A Close Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ - BBC Radio 4, Open Book, 10 April 2020

‘Punch and Injury’ - on Jordan Wolfson’s ‘Colored sculpture’ at Tate Modern - The TLS, 13 June 2018

Review

Review of Robert Wilson’s Mary Said What She Said, in the Australian Book Review, March 2026.

Review of Julian Barnes’ Departure(s), in The Conversation, January 2026

Review of Maggie Nelson’s Pathemata, in the Australian Book Review, Sept. 2025 [Paywall]

Review of Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi, in the Australian Book Review, July 2025 [Paywall]

Review of The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, in the Australian Book Review, May 2025 [Paywall]

Review of Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red, in The Conversation, Oct. 2024

Review of Brent Harris ‘Surrender & Catch’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, in the Australian Book Review, July 2024 [Paywall]

Review of The Adelaide Art Scene, in the Australian Book Review, June 2024 [Paywall]

Review of Schaubühne Berlin and Édouard Louis production of Qui a tué mon père, Adelaide Festival, in the Australian Book Review, March 2024 [Paywall]

Review of Paul Magee’s Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought, in the Australian Book Review, July 2023 [Paywall]

Review of exhibition ‘Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media’ at the Art Gallery of South Australia, in the Australian Book Review, March 2023 [Paywall]

Review of Ingrid Winterbach’s The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo, in the Johannesburg Review of Books, September 2019.

Other Reviews

The Lime Tree by César Aira, Spectator. Feb. 2018.

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey, Spectator. Jan. 2018.

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett, Spectator. June 2016.

Moonstone by Sjón, TLS. June 2016.

Trencherman by Eben Venter, Guardian. March 2016.

The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood, Newsweek. April 2015.

Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish, Guardian. April 2015.

Mr. Bones by Paul Theroux, Guardian. 9 Oct. 2014.

California by Edan Lepucki, TLS. 9 Oct. 2014.

How to be both by Ali Smith, Telegraph. 30 Aug. 2014.

Outlaws by Javier Cercas, Guardian. 21 June 2014.

‘Upstairs, Downstairs’. The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, Telegraph, 31 May 2014.

The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee, Washington Post, Sept. 2013.