Selected Criticism

Tuning In: An Essay-Conversation between Brian Blanchfield and Kate Briggs,” Barthes Studies, vol. 10: “Preparations,” ed. Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani, 2024

The Postcure and the Lecture Well: A Lover’s Discourse in Light of Barthes’s Late Pedagogy,”Countertext, vol. 9, no. 1. special issue on Roland Barthes, ed. Patrick Ffrench, 2023

Afterword: 75 Years of the Chicago Review,” Chicago Review, vol. 65, nos 2-4, 2022.

The Dead Dancer’s DDI: Hervé Guibert, Remedy, Contaminant, and Getting It Down,” Textual Practice, vol. 35, no 8., special issue on New Narrative writing, ed. Diarmuid Hester, 2021

Six Ways to Sunday”: Aaron Kunin’s The Mandarin.” A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel, ed. Laynie Browne, Nightboat Books, 2021

Review of The Light Years, by Chris Rush, New York Times Book Review, May 2019

“Two Mississippi,” a review of Heavy by Kiese Laymon, Bookforum, Dec-Jan, 2019

“Trans and Transient,” a review of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor, Bookforum, Feb-Mar, 2018

Coming Up with Guy Davenport,” in The Oxford American, Spring 2017.

“Bookmarked”: an annotated bibliography of a dozen books that influenced Proxies. University of Arizona Poetry Center blog. March, 2015

Freely Espousing: or Subject, to the Avant-Garde” in The Force of What’s Possible, ed. Hoang & Wilkinson, (Nightboat Books, December 2014)

On ‘The City State’,” in The Poetry Society of America’s “In Their Own Words” series, September 2014

in Hyperallergic, review of The Earth Avails by Mark Wunderlich, July 2014

in Spork, “The History of The History of Ideas, 1973-2012,” January 2014

in Bookforum, review of Hart Crane: After his Lights by Brian Reed, 2009