November 24, 2025
On Nov. 24, the Washington Post published my review of Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel.
“Egotistical billionaires and their outlandish, eschatological pet projects make for easy literary targets.”
There’s a non-paywalled version in the Texarkansa Gazette:
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/nov/29/lightbreakers-is-a-moving-inventive-novel-about
October 9, 2025
There’s a decent chance I wrote the first American review of László Krasznahorkai. Lit Hub has the details here: https://lithub.com/is-this-the-first-ever-english-language-review-of-laszlo-krasznahorkai/
“My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine months, the maximum length of a return ticket at that time, and ended up staying for close to five years. While there, I contributed to two English-language newspapers and eventually took a job in the nascent Internet industry.”
October 3, 2025
“I know I’m not the only one who feels overwhelmed by the daily torrent of terrible news. Every day brings another tragedy or disaster, most of them manmade. I teeter between grief and disbelief, disbelief and grief. While I can’t advocate turning our backs on all these awful events, it’s increasingly necessary for me to step outside and focus my care and attention on my surroundings. To regroup and collect the energy I’ll need to push back against this dominance hierarchy—against tyranny—when the time comes.
My advice is to get your hands dirty. That means protesting and running for office and all those noble things, sure, but I also mean it literally.”
Please read my essay here: https://lithub.com/tending-to-the-garden-of-american-democracy-is-hard-and-thankless-work/
March 9, 2022
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/books/MARK-HABER-in-conversation-with-Andrew-Ervin
“For me personally, literature makes the world more bearable and less uncertain. It may be a reliance, as you say, but I often think it’s a healthy reliance. Having literature, music and art to escape is a solace for so many people. It shouldn’t be at the expense of your community or the people around you, of course. But looking inwards is important. Sometimes I think my best conversations are the ones I have with myself. And that’s not a criticism of anyone! But having a rich interior life, an inner dialogue, is hugely important and when writing a book, you’re having this conversation with yourself every day, or each time you sit down. It’s maddening and thrilling and an avenue into knowing parts of yourself.”
April 1, 2021
“For all our reminiscing, Murakami seems to say, it’s the things we don’t remember that might haunt us the most. After all, memory is itself another liminal space, one where we experience both now and then at the same time. Likewise, finishing First Person Singular requires thinking back to everything we’ve just read about these characters’ lives, and to everything we didn’t.”
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/04/books/Haruki-Murakamis-First-Person-Singular