Career
He is a contributing editor for Harper"s and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Lapham"s Quarterly, Oxford American, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, Nerve, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.
His father is of Jewish background.