- On El Anatsui for The New Yorker
- On the history of Underground Railroad Reenactments for The New Yorker
- On Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment for Vanity Fair
- Review of Ian McEwan’s “Machines Like Me” for The New Yorker
- On curses in contemporary African literature for The New York Times Book Review
- On “permanent death” in text-based roleplaying games for Cabinet
- Review of Derek Walcott and Peter Doig’s “Morning, Paramin” for The New York Review of Books
- Review of Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad” for The New York Review of Books