• Postcard illustration of a woman in a red dress with floral patterns, holding a cigarette and looking into the distance, with the word 'Paris' written on it in black. The background features a dark blue sky and clouds.

    Broken Cadillac: Capitalism and Inheritance

    The Yale Review, Spring 2025

    Essay
  • Hand holding a book titled "The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures" by Jean Baudrillard, with a revised edition label and a rainbow-colored barcode on the cover, in front of a bookshelf filled with various books and framed butterfly artwork.

    Alice and Jean: Is it Possible to Be an Ethical Consumer?

    The Yale Review, Summer 2022

    Essay
  • Vintage binoculars with painted landscapes on each side, set on a marble surface.

    Lighter Than Air

    On inherited opera glasses, dementia, and exchange value.

    Salmagundi, 2019.

    Essay
  • Parrot on a Stone Plinth

    Parrot on a Stone Plinth

    On strange imperial hangovers

    New England Review, 2018

    Essay
  • Painting of an interior room with a doorway open to a view of the ocean.

    The Beatitude of Nowhere

    On the aesthetics of nowhere

    The Georgia Review, 2018

    Essay
  • Self storage building with a sign that reads 'Storage USA Self Storage 800-STOP-USA' against a blue sky with some clouds.

    Self Storage

    On Lucretius, grief and storage spaces

    The Iowa Review, 2018

    Essay
  • An elderly man wearing a hat and jacket holding a small dog, standing next to a table with a dog and two cats, a guitar, and a bottle, against a brick wall background. The caption reads 'Pop' with his pets on the way to NYC, Oct. 12-0.

    On Collections and Camera Lucida

    On an inheritance of vintage postcards

    Hotel Amerika, 2016

    Essay

  • Bowerbirds

    On outsider architecture

    The Normal School, 2014

    Essay