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The archive

Essays, published and in preparation.

Everything I’ve written and everything I’m writing, read across six disciplines. Pieces still in preparation appear here too — so you can see what’s coming.

All essays

Literature × Psychology May 2026

The Unreliable Reader

A second reading is not the first reading made wiser — it is a different cosmology entirely.

~14 min read
Literature Apr 2026

The Note in the Margin

Marginalia is the only conversation in which both parties are sincere.

~6 min read
Politics × Philosophy In preparation

Constitutional Patience

How long a constitution can stand silent before its silence becomes the loudest thing about it.

~11 min read
Psychology × Literature In preparation

Mourning, Re-read

On grief's textual habits — the books we re-read when someone dies are the books we are mourning.

~10 min read
Literature In preparation

The Translator's Loyalties

Every translator is a critic; the disloyalty is in the choice of which loyalty to keep.

~12 min read
Economics × Philosophy In preparation

What the Market Cannot Say

What the price tag teaches and what it cannot — written between Polanyi and the supermarket aisle.

~9 min read