Public Writing
Personal Essays
“I Changed My Mind About Problematic Male Writers.” The Walrus. October 17, 2023.
“Alberta and Me.” A personal essay on the oil sands. Literary Review of Canada. July-August 2023.
“My Pandemic Affair with Captain James T. Kirk.” The Globe and Mail. July 15, 2021.
Reported Pieces
“The Griffin Poetry Prize Shakeup: New Rules, New Controversy.” The Walrus. January, 2023.
“A Small Press Finds Success by Refusing to Ignore the World.” On Haitian-run Quebec publisher Mémoire d'encrier. The Walrus. February 18, 2022. Translated into French with Courrier International.
Literary Criticism and Book Reviews
“Hotline Proves Happy Endings Are Still Worth Writing.” The Walrus. June 9, 2022.
“The Bélangers: An oral history of a Montreal gang.” Review of Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland’s Out to Defend Ourselves. Literary Review of Canada. November 2023. Literary Review of Canada. November 2023.
“Winds of Change: Three takes on gentrification.” Reviews of Leslie Kern’s Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies, Marie Sterlin and Antoine Trussart’s Gentriville, and Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal. Literary Review of Canada. September 2023.
“A Series Interrupted: Marie-Claire Blais’ melancholy finale.” Review of Marie Claire Blais’ Augustino ou l’illumination. Literary Review of Canada. April 2023.
“To Sink or Swim: A poetic novel by Dominique Scali.” Review of Dominique Scali’s Les marins ne savent pas nager. Literary Review of Canada. March 2023.
“The Meeting Point: Haitian writers amid Québécois letters.” Review of Marie-Célie Agnant’s A Knife in the Sky and Emmelie Prophète’s Blue. Literary Review of Canada. January-February 2023.
“Here It Once Stood: A pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot.” Review of L’habitude des ruines: Le sacre de l’oubli et de la laideur au Québec by Marie-Hélène Voyer and 305 Lost Buildings of Canada by Raymond Biesinger and Alex Bozikovic. Literary Review of Canada. September 2022.
“A Dual Perspective: Scenes of a Congolese world.” Review of Ténèbre by Paul Kawczak and Dans le ventre du Congo by Blaise Ndala. Literary Reivew of Canada. July-August 2022.
“Upstaged: Prop and circumstance.” Review of Atelier 10’s play series. Literary Review of Canada. May 2022.
“Among the thorns: What grows in the Sunshine province.” Review of Wild Roses are Worth It, by Kevin Van Tighem. Literary Review of Canada. January-February 2022.
“Quandary Quebec: Divisive issues in La Belle Province.” On racial discourse in Quebec. Literary Review of Canada. November 2021.
“Too Soon? Share words, not germs.” Review of Chronicling the Days, edited by Linda M. Morra and Marianne Ackerman. Literary Review of Canada. September 2021.
“Is There Such Thing as the Universal Human Experience? Author Marie-Claire Blais Says Yes.” Review of Marie-Claire Blais’ Songs for Angel, trans. Katia Grubisic. The Walrus. August 2021.
“Landings: How I wonder where you are.” Review of Caroline Dawson’s Là où je me terre. Literary Review of Canada. July-August 2021.
“Touch of Madness: A new translation of a classic.” Review of Réjean Ducharme’s Swallowed, trans Madeleine Stratford. Literary Review of Canada. May 2021.
“French Fold: All the snowbird news that’s fit to print.” Literary Review of Canada. April 2021.
“Crossed Histories: A collection from Kaie Kellough.” Review of Kaie Kellough’s Dominoes at the Crossroads. Literary Review of Canada. September 2020.
“North and South: Cuba’s Orwellian mystery.” Review of Frédérick Lavoie’s Orwell in Cuba. Literary Review of Canada. July-August 2020.
Translations
“Tanbou Kreyòl/Creole Drum” by Georges Castera. Barricade 1: 65-77.
Seven Against Thebes by Antón Arrufat. The Mercurian 8.4 (Fall 2021): 16-65.
Interviews
“The Languages of Canadian Literature: An Interview with Quattro Press’ Bilal Hashmi.” Puritan Magazine. 2020.
Other Writing
“‘Protests and Pedagogy’ : La commémoration de l’occupation étudiante de 1969 à Concordia.” HistoireEngagée.ca
Editorial Roles
Contributing Editor with Literary Review of Canada from 2021 to present
Editor at Large for issue 4 of Barricade: A Journal of Anti-Fascism and Translation