I am a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Before that, I wrote for The New York Times Book Review. In 2023, I received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. You can read my acceptance speech here. I have a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University.

My reporting, commentary, and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Vulture, Bookforum, The Nation, The Paris Review, Frieze, Rest of World, Lux, and elsewhere. I have appeared on podcasts like Time To Say Goodbye and the podcast of The New York Times Book Review.