Writing

Books:

Christian Poetry in America since 1940: An Anthology (Paraclete Press, 2022). Winner of the 2023 Christianity Today Book Award for Arts and Culture.
The Soul Is a Stranger in this World: Essays on Poetry and Poets (Cascade Books, 2020).
Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Saying “I” (Rowman and Littlfield and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011).

Book Chapters:

“The Example of Prussian Nights.” Beyond the Soul and Barbed Wire: The Continuing Legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Russian Voices in American Culture. Eds. David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2020.
“Walker Percy’s Alternative to Scientism in The Thanatos Syndrome.” Perspective in Political Science 40.3 (2011): 147-152. Reprinted in Political Companion To Walker Percy. Eds. Peter Lawler and Brian A. Smith. Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, forthcoming June 2013. Print.

Essays and Reviews:

The Wall Street Journal:

“A Young Man Etched in Absence.” The Wall Street Journal (12 November 2022). Print.
“Lest We Forget!” Rev. of Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch, by David Mamet. The Wall Street Journal (5 April 2022). Print.
“1922 and All That.” Rev. of The World Broke in Two, by Bill Goldstein. The Wall Street Journal (11 August 2017).
“The Captive and the Free.” Rev. of Milosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek. The Wall Street Journal (9 June 2017).
“An Undercover Evangelical in New York.” Rev. of My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir, by Macy Halford. The Wall Street Journal (17 February 2017).
“The Poem that Made Picasso Possible.” Rev. of One Toss of the Dice, by R. Howard Bloch. The Wall Street Journal (2 December 2016). Print.
“The Literary Executive.” Rev. of The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens, by Paul Mariani. The Wall Street Journal (1 April 2016). Print.
“Crisis in Conscience.” Crime and Punishment at 150. The Wall Street Journal (26 March 2016). Print.
“The Modernist of East Texas.” Rev. of It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Writing Life, by Clark Davis. Wall Street Journal (22 May 2015).
“Chasing Happiness.” Rev. of Happiness, by Frederic Lenoir. The Wall Street Journal (11 April 2015). Print.
“St. Louis Bore Him.” Rev. of Young Eliot, by Robert Crawford. The Wall Street Journal (4 April 2015). Print.
“Advice for Reading Well.” Rev. of The Palace of Books, by Roger Grenier. The Wall Street Journal (27 December 2014). Print.
“The Dark Lady of Letters.” Rev. of Susan Sontag: A Biography, by Daniel Schreiber. Wall Street Journal (forthcoming, 2014). Print.
“Songs of War.” Rev. of Some Desperate Glory, by Max Egremont and Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology, edited by Tim Kendall. The Wall Street Journal (21 June 2014). Print.
“Modernism’s Unlikely Hero.” Rev. of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, by James Dempsey. The Wall Street Journal (21 May 2014). Print
“All for One, One for All.” Rev. of Friendship, by A.C. Grayling. Wall Street Journal (4 January 2014). Print.
“Fascism’s Prophet.” Rev. of Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War. The Wall Street Journal (24 August 2013). Print.
“The Speech of Silence.” Rev. of Gertrud Kolmar: A Literary Life, by Dieter Kuhn. The Wall Street Journal (8 July 2013). Print.
“Literary Cycles.” (27 June 2013). Print.
“The Lives of Lady Lazarus.” Rev. of American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, by Carl Rollyson. The Wall Street Journal (26 January 2013). Print.
“The Prayers of a Poet.” Rev. of Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman, Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Annemarie Kidder. The Wall Street Journal (6 August 2012): A11. Print.
“The Pursuit of Presence.” Rev. of Second Simplicity, by Yves Bonnefoy. Wall Street Journal (11 February 2012). Print.

The Washington Examiner:

“Brett Easton Ellis Turns the Screw.” Rev. of The Shards: A Novel, by Brett Easton Ellis. The Washington Examiner (14 February 2023). Print.
“A.N. Wilson, Failed Confessor.” Rev. of Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises, by A.N. Wilson. The Washington Examiner (4 November 2022). Print.
“John Donne’s Hungry Life.” Rev. of Superinfinite: The Transformation of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell. The Washington Examiner (27 September 2022). Print.
“The Deeper Meaning of Bruce Lee.” Rev of Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee, by Daryl Joji. The Washington Examiner (16 August 2022). Print.
“Art, Performance Art, and Climate Activism.” The Washington Examiner (14 July 2022). Print.

The Spectator World:

“The Marxist Writer Who Railed against Lenin.” The Spectator World (27 June 2022). Web.
“In Praise of (Very) Small Book Publishers.” The Spectator World (20 June 2022). Web.
“The Welcome Return of The Kids in the Hall.” The Spectator World (12 June 2022). Web.
“The Optimist’s Daughter at 50.” The Spectator World (6 June 2022). Web.
“In Praise of Throwaway Culture.” The Spectator World (31 May 2022). Web.
“The Energetic and Tragic Keats.” Rev. of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph, by Lucasta Miller. The Spectator World (23 May 2022). Web.
“Can Right-Wing Comedy Be Funny?” The Spectator World (18 May 2022). Web.
“The Failure of Marine Le Pen.” The Spectator World (11 May 2022). Web.
“What Happens after Roe?” The Spectator World (4 May 2022). Web.
“In Praise of Fishing.” The Spectator World (25 April 2022). Web.
“Robert B. Shaw Sees Things as They Are.” Rev. of What Remains to Be Said: New and Selected Poems, by Robert B. Shaw. The Spectator World (17 April 2022). Web.
“Is the White Male Novelist Disappearing?” The Spectator World (11 April 2022). Web.
“Is Andy Warhol Really an Artist?” The Spectator World (4 April 2022). Web.
“Wallace Stevens and the Magic of Stuff.” The Spectator World (29 March 2022). Web.
“A Private Life.” Rev. of Private Notebooks: 1914-1916, by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Spectator World (24 March 2022). Print.
“Against Hope.” Rev. of Hope: A Literary History, by Adam Potkay. The Spectator World (20 March 2022). Web.
“On Receiving Books in the Mail.” The Spectator World (13 March 2022). Web.
“Listen to Arvo Part for Lent.” The Spectator World (6 March 2022). Web.
“Pop Music Isn’t Getting Better – and That’s OK.” The Spectator World (28 February 2022). Web.
“Imagining Rimbaud.” The Spectator World (21 February 2022). Web.
“We Don’t Need More Literary Magazines.” The Spectator World (14 February 2022). Web.
“A History of Exercise.” The Spectator World (6 February 2022). Web.
“The Age of the Media Explainer.” The Spectator World (31 January 2022). Web.
“Picking a Fight.” Rev. of Why Argument Matters, by Lee Siegel. The Spectator World (February 2022): 50.
“The Last Conservative Critic?” The Spectator World (24 January 2022). Web.
“Writing and the Conservative Impulse.” The Spectator World (17 January 2022). Web.
“The Fifth Head of Cerberus at 50.” The Spectator World (10 January 2022). Web.
“Christmas in the South.” The Spectator World (20 December 2021). Web.
“Saving Henry James’s Christmas Ghost Story from the Critics.” The Spectator World (12 December 2021). Web.
“How a Small Publisher Survived the Digital Age.” The Spectator World (5 December 2021). Web.
“The Forgotten John Martin Finlay.” The Spectator World (29 November 2021). Web.
“Why I Didn’t Start a Substack.” The Spectator World (22 November 2021). Web.
“Lionel Trilling against Cancel Culture.” The Spectator World (15 November 2021). Web.
“Yung Love.” Rev. of Savage Messiah: How Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser. The Spectator World (December 2019): 44-46. Print.

The Weekly Standard:

“Wide and Starry Sky.” The Weekly Standard (12 November 2018): 42-3. Print.
“Little Free Librarian.” The Weekly Standard (5 November 2018): 46-7. Print.
“Professor Exterminator.” The Weekly Standard (5 June 2018). Print.
“Milton’s Morality.” The Weekly Standard (5 January 2018). Print.
“Cracks in Language.” The Weekly Standard (18 September 2017). Print.
“Systemic Racism Is Everywhere and Nowhere.” The Weekly Standard (18 July 2017). Web.
“The Hero as Actor.” The Weekly Standard. Rev. Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon, by Marc Eliot.(1 May 2017). Print.
“Birds of Paradise.” The Weekly Standard. Rev. of The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast, by Joseph Nigg.(20 March 2017). Print.
“Jerry Saltz and the Art of Vacuous Art Criticism.” The Weekly Standard (22 December 2016). Web.
“The Long Haul.” The Weekly Standard (28 November 2016). Print.
“Bard for Life.” Rev. Shakespeare’s First Folio, by Emma Smith. The Weekly Standard (14 November 2016). Print.
“Westward, Oh: The Prophetic Vision of Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose” The Weekly Standard (12 September 2016). Print.
“Minds Like Ducks.” Rev. of Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor, by Ward Farnsworth. The Weekly Standard (13 June 2016). Print.
“Flowers of Evil.” Rev. of Good and Evil in the Garden of Art, by Anthony Daniels. The Weekly Standard (25 April 2016). Print.
“A Friendly Society.” Rev. of Sympathetic Puritans, by Abram Van Engen.The Weekly Standard (28 September 2015). Print.
“Where’s Waldo?” Weekly Standard 20.18 (19 January 2015). Print.
“Go Down Swinging.” Rev. of Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell, by James Andrew Taylor. The Weekly Standard 19.41 (14 July 2014). Print.
“Bard of Honor.” Rev. of Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells. The Weekly Standard 19.26 (17 March 2014). Print.
“The Human Factor.” Rev. of When I Was a Child, I Read Books, by Marilynne Robinson. The Weekly Standard 18.37 (10 June 2013). Print.
“The Secret Society.” Rev. of Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life, by Robert Milder. The Weekly Standard 18.27 (25 March 2013): 42-44. Print.
“Address Formal.” Rev. of Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion, by Kirstie Blair; The Rise and Fall of Meter, by Meredith Martin. The Weekly Standard (20 August 2012): 34-35. Print.
“The Reading Life.” Rev. of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, by Alan Jacobs, and The Uses and Abuses of Literature, by Marjorie Garber. The Weekly Standard 17.1 (19 September 2011): 40-41. Print.

The Washington Free Beacon:

“Charles Frazier’s Claptrap of a Novel.” Rev. of The Trackers, by Charles Frazier. Washington Free Beacon (16 April 2023). Web.
“Petrarch the Man.” Rev. of Selected Letters, by Francesco Petrarca. Washington Free Beacon (4 March 2017). Web.
“Eat Meat Like Whitman.” Rev. of Manly Health and Training, by Walt Whitman. Washington Free Beacon (5 February 3017). Web.
“When Controversy Becomes Conspiracy.” Rev. of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, by Joel Whitney. Washington Free Beacon (21 January 2017). Web.
“The Faithful Poetry of Christian Wiman.” Rev. of Hammer Is the Prayer, by Christian Wiman. Washington Free Beacon (7 January 2017). Web.
“Reading Homer Today.” Rev. of Homer, by Barbara Graziosi. Washington Free Beacon (3 December 2016). Web.
“How to Write a Review.” Rev. of The Weight of a World of Feeling: Reviews and Essays, by Elizabeth Bowen. Washington Free Beacon (19 November 2016). Web.
“Bob Dylan’s Words.” Rev of The Lyrics: 1961-2012, by Bob Dylan. Washington Free Beacon (5 November 2016). Web.
“The Trouble with Evelyn Waugh.” Rev. of Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, by Philip Eade. Washington Free Beacon (22 October 2016). Web.
“Sweden’s Retrogarde Poet.” Rev. of Dog Star Notations, by Håkan Sandell. Washington Free Beacon (8 October 2016). Web.
“Lunching with Thatcher, Dancing with Arafat,” Rev. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life, John le Carré. Washington Free Beacon (24 September 2016). Web.
“A Very Modern Herbert.” 100 Poems, by George Herbert. Washington Free Beacon (10 September 206). Web.
“Can American Colleges Be Fixed?” Washington Free Beacon (27 August 2016). Web.
“Was E. E. Cummings the Holden Caulfield of American Poetry?” Rev. of The Collected Poems of E. Cummings. Washington Free Beacon (13 August 2016). Web.
“The Queen of the Thunderbolt.” Rev. of Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, by Cynthia Ozick. Washington Free Beacon (23 July 2016). Web.
“A Modern Martial.” Rev. of Sleaze and Slander: Poems, by A. M. Juster Washington Free Beacon (9 July 2016). Web.
“Ernest Hilbert’s Street Music.” Rev. of Caligulan, by Ernest Hilbert. Washington Free Beacon (4 June 2016). Web.
“Double Fault.” Rev. of String Theory, by David Foster Wallace. Washington Free Beacon (21 May 2016). Web.
“Emily Dickinson’s Wisdom.” Rev. of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, by Cristanne Miller. Washington Free Beacon (7 May 2016). Web.
“The Comedy Tour that Made Mark Twain.” Rev. of Chasing the Last Laugh, by Richard Zacks. Washington Free Beacon (23 April 2016). Web.
“Les Murray’s Places.” Rev. of Waiting for the Past, by Les Murray. Washington Free Beacon (10 April 2016). Web.
“Dana Gioia’s Poetry.” Rev. of 99 Poems: New and Selected, by Dana Gioia. The Washington Free Beacon (19 March 2016). Web.
“What Is Criticism?” Rev. of Better Living Through Criticism, A. O. Scott.Washington Free Beacon (5 March 2016). Web.
“Allen Ginsberg, Bore.” Rev. of Wait Till I’m Dead, by Allen Ginsberg.Washington Free Beacon (20 February 2016). Web.
“Imagining the Weimar Republic.” Rev. of Emblems of the Passing World, by Adam Kirsch. The Washington Free Beacon (6 February 2016). Web.
“Verse Riddles.” Rev. of Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, translated by A. M. Juster.The Washington Free Beacon (9 January 2016). Web.
“Robert Frost, Family Man.” Rev. of You Come Too, by Lesley Lee Francis.The Washington Free Beacon (5 December 2015). Web.
“Did Conservatives Create Creative Writing Programs to Fight the Cold War?” Rev. of Workshops of Empire, by Eric Bennett. The Washington Free Beacon (20 November 2015). Web.
“Reading to the End.” Rev. of Last Readings, by Clive James. The Washington Free Beacon (29 August 2015). Web.
“The Real ‘Great Satan’.” Rev. of The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, by Michael Walsh. The Washington Free Beacon 22 August 2015). Web.
“Saul Bellow at 100.” Rev. of The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachery Leader. Washington Free Beacon (20 June 2015).
“Knowing Me, Knowing You.” Rev. of The Daemon Knows, by Harold Bloom. Washington Free Beacon (13 June 2015).
“Literary Facebook.” Rev. of Notebook, by Jeff Nunokawa. Washington Free Beacon (16 May 2015).
“Sex, Poetry, and the Great Beyond.” Rev. of The Life and Art of James Merrill, by Langdon Hammer. Washington Free Beacon (2 May 2015).
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Artistry.” Rev. of On Elizabeth Bishop, by Colm Toibin.Washington Free Beacon (11 April 2015). Web.

The Atlantic:

“Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems: 21st-Century Poetry in 1964.” The Atlantic (21 May 2014). Web.
“Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Poem on Craigslist?” The Atlantic (14 August 2013). Web.

The National Review:

“Are the Liberal Arts Useful?” Rev. of The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It, by John Agresto. National Review 84.18 (3 October 2022). Print.
“Family Man.” Rev. of Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J.F. Powers, 1942-63, edited by Katherine A. Powers. The National Review (30 September 2013). Print.
“Evelyn Waugh, Catholic Optimist.” Rev. of Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, by Michael J. Brennan. National Review 65.7 (22 April 2013). Print.

The New Criterion:

“The Permanence and Failure of Surrealism.” The New Criterion (March 2018). Print.
“Point of Reference.” Rev. of You Could Look It Up, by Jack Lynch. New Criterion (May 2016). Print.
“Spots of Intensity.” Rev. of Poetry Notebook, by Clive James. The New Criterion (April 2015). Print.
“Technique Over Feeling.” Rev. of Rev. of Collected French Translations, by John Ashbery. The New Criterion (October 2014). Print.
“Albert Camus, Prophet.” Rev. of Algerian Chronicles, by Albert Camus, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The New Criterion (October 2013). Print.
“A Savage Wit.” Rev. of Poems, by François Villon. Trans. David Giorgi. The New Criterion 31.7 (March 2013): 68-70. Print.

First Things:

“The Integrity of Poetry.” First Things (February 2023). Print.
“Old Possum Ain’t Dead Yet.” Rev. of Eliot after The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford. First Things (January 2023). Print.
“Why Read Literature?” First Things (30 August 2013). Web.
“Both an Original and a Man of His Time.” First Things (20 August 2013). Web.
“An Odd Report on the Humanities.” First Things (21 June 2013). Web.
“Kindle Highlighting and the American Mind.” First Things (24 May 2013). Web.
“Great Lines: ‘oh Lana Turner we love you get up.” First Things (26 April 2013). Web.
“Great Lines: ‘She sang beyond the genius of sea’.” First Things (19 April 2013). Web.
“Great Lines: ‘Where are the snows of yesteryear?’” First Things (12 April 2013). Web.
“Great Lines: ‘April is the cruellest month’.” First Things (5 April 2013). Web.
“Morality and Cycling.” First Things (21 January 2013). Web.
“Confessions of a Protestant Christmas Tree Amateur.” First Things (7 December 2012). Web.
“Everyman’s Poet.” Rev. of Pity the Beautiful, by Dana Gioia. First Things (October 2012): 60-62. Print
“Nikolai Gogol’s The Night before Christmas.” First Things (12 December 2011). Web.
“April’s Ambivalences.” First Things (1 April 2011). Web.
“An Interview with Winston Riley on Walker Percy.” First Things (4 February 2011). Web.
“Whither Walker Percy?” First Things (10 May 2010). Web.
“Occasional Poetry and John Updike’s Endpoint.” First Things (2 February 2010). Web.
“The Peculiar Peculiar Life of Sundays.” Rev. of The Peculiar Life of Sundays, by Stephen Miller. First Things (20 April 2009). Web.

Books & Culture:

“The Promise of Future Fullness.” Rev. of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems, by Scott Cairns. Books & Culture (November/December 2015). Print.
“It’s the Swing Itself I Dig.” Rev. of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters, edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano. Books and Culture (July/August 2015). Print.
“I Wandered Around This Glow.” Rev. of Openwork, by Andre du Bouchet. Books and Culture (January/February 2015). Print.
“The Kid.” Rev. of E.E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever. Books and Culture (March/April 2014). Print.
“The ‘Soul is a Stranger in this World.” Books and Culture (17 January 2014). Web.
“In Search of Revelation and Style.” Rev. of Selected Early Poems and Plays, by Robert Duncan. Books & Culture (11 June 2013). Web.
“As Close as Possible to the Original.” Rev. of Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin. Books & Culture (16 April 2013). Web.
“Orpheus in the Bronx.” Rev. of Red Clay Weather, by Reginald Shepherd. Books & Culture (19 July 2012). Web.
“Poetry and Music.” Rev. of The Second Spring, by Joseph Bottum. Books & Culture (September/October 2011): 21. Print.
“Tourist in Hell.” Rev. of Tourist in Hell, by Eleanor Wilner. Books & Culture (5 July 2011). Web.
“Everyone Loves a Story.” Rev. of News of the World, by Philip Levine. Books & Culture (6 April 2011). Web.
“Letter from Switzerland: The Alps, Belonging and Swiss Dogs.” Books & Culture (August 2010). Web.

Public Discourse:

“The Ideology of Anti-Poetry.” Rev. of The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking,” by James Matthew Wilson. Public Discourse (11 March 2016). Web.
“It’s Time to Return to the New Critics.” Public Discourse (17 December 2013). Web.
“Is Free Verse Immoral?” Public Discourse (10 February 2012). Web.
“Saving Poetry from Ideology.” Public Discourse (15 February 2011). Web
“Of Form and Flarf.” Public Discourse (7 February 2011). Web.

The American Spectator:

“Scalia’s Literary Dissent.” The American Spectator (1 July 2013). Web.
“The Point of Criticism.” Rev. of The Fortunes of Permanence, by Roger Kimball. The American Spectator (October 2012): 82-83. Print.
“Occupied Poetry.” The American Spectator (20 August 2012). Web.
“François Hollande and the Arts.” The American Spectator (26 July 2012). Web.
“Poets and Capitalism.” The American Spectator (27 February 2012). Web.

The American Conservative:

“E. E. Cummings in Love and at War.” Rev. of The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings and the Great War, by J. Alison Rosenblitt. The American Conservative (January/February 2021). Print.
“The Sixties Survive.” Rev. of The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell and The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat The American Conservative. (March/April 2020): 49-51. Print.
“Walker Percy’s Theory of Man.” The American Conservative (November/December 2019): 50-51. Print.
“Margaret Atwood’s Latest Is a Poor Woman’s Handmaid’s Tale.” The American Conservative (30 September 2019). Web.
“A Religious Satire for the 21st Century.” The American Conservative (15 April 2019). Web.
“The Motley South.” The American Conservative (March/April 2019): 57-8. Print.
“In Defense of Great Books.” Rev. of This Thing We Call Literature, by Arthur Krystal. The American Conservative (13 May 2016). Web.
“Finding True South.” Rev. of South Toward Home, by Margaret Eby; My Southern Journey, by Rick Bragg. The American Conservative (1 April 2016). Web.
“Proust’s English Voice.” Rev. of Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator, by Jean Findlay. The American Conservative (May/June 2015). Print.
“What Happened to Basil Bunting?” Rev. of A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting, by Richard Burton. The American Conservative (March/April, 2014). Print.
“The Art of Trains.” The American Conservative (October 2012): 11-12. Print.
“How to Read Robert Frost.” Rev. of The Art of Robert Frost, by Tim Kendall. The American Conservative (August 2012): 54-55. Print.

The City:

“Russia’s Other Dissident Novelist.” The City (Winter 2014). Print.
“Life’s Missing Pieces.” Rev. of Olives, by A.E. Stallings. The City (Winter 2013): 101-103. Print.
“The Big Easy’s Unfortunate Son.” Rev. of Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy O’Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces, by Corey MacLauchlin. The City (Spring 2012): 100-103. Print.
“The Bard, Politicized.” Rev. of A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice, by Kenji Yoshino. The City (Summer 2011): 97-100. Print.
“Ayn Rand: An Egotistical Life.” Rev. of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns, and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller. The City 3.2 (Fall 2010): 81-85. Print.
“Scott Cairns: The Slow Pilgrim.” Rev. of Compass of Affection, by Scott Cairns. The City 2.1 (Spring 2009): 103-106. Print.
“The Recent Poetry of Franz Wright.” Rev. of God’s Silence, Walking to Martha’s Vineyard and The Beforelife, by Franz Wright. The City 1.3 (Winter 2008): 116-123. Print.

Other Writing:

“Poetry, Oblivion, and God.” The University Bookman (18 November 2018). Web.
“Making Poetry Matter.” City Journal (8 January, 2016). Web.
“The Poet: Companion to the Common Man.” Chronicles Magazine (October 2015). Print.
“Paul Lake’s Republic of Virtue.” The University Bookman (22 February 2015). Web.
“The Absurdity of Gender Theory.” Rev. of Les demons du bien, by Alain de Benoist. University Bookman (18 January 2015). Web.
“It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s J. Alfred Prufrock!” Interview with Julian Peters. The University Bookman (6 January 2014). Web.
Rev. of Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe. The Washington Times (26 October 2012). Print.
“The Sin-Eater.” Rev. of The Sin-Eater: A Breviary, by Thomas Lynch. New Oxford Review (May 2012): 46-48. Print.
“Poetically Thinking.” Rev. of The Poetry of Thought, by George Steiner. The University Bookman (23 April 2012). Web.
Rev. of Pslater: A Sequence of Catholic Sonnets, by William Baer. The New Oxford Review (July-August 2011): 41-42. Print.
“A True Account?” Rev. A Question Mark above the Sun, by Kent Johnson. Pleiades 31.2 (June 2011): 150-155. Print.
“How Might the Arts Be Funded?” Capital Commentary (13 May 2011). Web.
“On Christian Literature.” Comment Magazine (3 December 2010). Web.
“The Comedic Effect.” Rev. of Lovely, Raspberry, by Aaron Belz. A Smartish Pace (5 November 2010). Web.
“The Wright Stuff.” Rev. of Wheeling Motel, by Franz Wright. America Magazine 202.4 (15 February 2010): 28-29. Print.
“Frank O’Hara and ‘Why I Am Not a Painter’.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 40.2 (March 2010): 10-12. Print.
“Nobody Move.” Rev. of Nobody Move, by Denis Johnson. The New Ledger (30 June 2009). Web.
Rev. of Sleigh Ride, by Joe Fletcher. Octopus Magazine 11 (2009). Web.
“Naming Things: Frank O’Hara and ‘The Day Lady Died’.” Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL) 18: American Poetry from Whitman to the Present. Eds. Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 139-50. Print.
“Periodization and Difference.” New Literary History 35.4 (2004): 685-697. Print.
“Frank O’Hara’s Lute against the Self.” Applied Semiotics 11-12(2002): 123-132. Print.