A selection of articles from print and digital publications

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the Brooklyn Rail

• REVIEW: Lara Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel, The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2025.

Public Seminar

Hyperallergic

• The Marvelous and Monstrous Reality of Being a New York Artist (Interview) Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face. August 8, 2024

Please Kill Me

• Sylvia Plath: No Escaping the Bell Jar 55 years after the poet Sylvia Plath’s death, she continues to inspire books, songs, films and verse. June 16, 2018

• The Many Lives of Anais Nin Anaïs Nin’s diaries told of an independent, bohemian woman on a sensual and artistic journey – carousing with expats in Paris in the 30s and Greenwich Village’s artistic milieu in the 40s – but was much of it a type of performance art? April 16, 2018

• Blood and Guts: The Rebirth of Kathy Acker (Review) The reissue of this post-punk novelist’s work puts her back in the countercultural conversation where she belongs. November 1, 2017

Newsweek

• The New Monument Men Outsmart ISIS (Cover story) Unlike much of the artwork rescued during World War II, the endangered architecture in the Middle East can’t be carted away to safety. But as the obstacles of preservation have evolved, so has the ability to address new situations. November 11, 2015

• The Rise of the ‘Supertall’ Skyscraper Why all the recent upward expansion in New York? February 7, 2016

• Will Skyscrapers Ruin Paris? The last skyscraper built in central Paris was the Tour Montparnasse in 1973. The 210-meter tall building caused a backlash that a height regulation of 37-meters for buildings was put in place to prevent further such monstrosities. April 9, 2016