Book Reviews
Recent Reviews
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Alexandra Seros
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
Alphaville: Journal of Film & Screen Media
September 2026 -
Madeleine Scherer et al.,
Memories of Antiquity: Classical Reception & Memory StudiesBryn Mawr Classical Review
August 2026 -
Joanna Potepa,
It Happened. Make of It What You WillIndependent Book Review
August 2026 -
Serkan Görkemli,
Sweet Tooth and Other StoriesIndependent Book Review,
July 2026 -
Mary Beard,
Talking Classics: The Shock of the OldWashington Independent Review of Books
June 2026 -
Joan Silber,
In the CityNecessary Fiction
May 2026 -
Kathleen Spaltro,
Ethel Barrymore: Shy Empress of the FootlightsPopMatters
May 2026 -
Jayne Anne Phillips,
Small Town Girls: A Writer’s MemoirSouthern Review of Books
April 2026 -
Marian Mitchell Donahue,
BackstitchIndependent Book Review
April 2026 -
Kim Hyesoon,
Lady NoAsymptote
April 2026 -
Claudia Petrucci,
The Perfect CircleAsymptote
April 2026 -
Mohamed Mansi Qandil,
The Country Doctor’s TaleAsymptote
April 2026 -
Therese Bohman,
Mount VerityNecessary Fiction
April 2026 -
Jim Naremore,
American Still LifeHeavy Feather Review
April 2026 -
Jeanette Winterson,
One Aladdin Two LampsHarvard Review Online
March 2026 -
Suzy Eynon,
TerrestrialIndependent Book Review
March 2026 -
Lynn Cullen,
When We Were Brilliant
Open Letters Review
February 2026 -
Scott Eyman,
Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face
Open Letters Review
January 2026 -
Gabriella Saab,
The Star SocietySouthern Review of Books
January 2026
Featured Criticism | Homesickness, Grief, and Appalachia in Small Town Girls
Review of Jayne Anne Phillips’s Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
Southern Review of Books
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My reviews of fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in American Book Review, Asymptote, Harvard Review Online, Heavy Feather Review, Independent Book Review, Necessary Fiction, and the Southern Review of Books, among other venues.
My nonfiction reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Film International, Film Quarterly, New Review of Film & Television Studies, Washington Independent Review of Books, and Woman’s Art Journal, among other venues.