Symposium on Exile and Cunning (forthcoming) — The Threepenny Review
On Joyce’s famous prescription for the artist.
Exile City — The London Magazine
On Hisham Matar, Joseph Conrad, and London as the Exile city par excellence.
Symposium on Escape — The Threepenny Review
On gambling, casinos, and the ‘abyss of ultimate risk.’
Symposium on the Mysterious — The Threepenny Review
On my Iranian grandmother’s lifelong fear of contamination by the dead.
On Bach — The Threepenny Review
On my relationship to the unaccompanied cello suites.
The Vandal — Los Angeles Review of Books
On the history and dubious religious credentials of Salvador Dalí’s crucifixion painting, Christ of Saint John of the Cross.