Writing
Essays and articles
A selection of shorter pieces for general readers. For a complete list of academic publications, see the full CV.
- August 2025
Gods, Humans, and Other Animals
Syndicate: A Living Network of Scholarship in the Humanities
A response to Edith Humphrey's Mediation and the Immediate God.
- October 2017
In the Garden of Eden
The New York Times Book Review
Letter to the editor responding to Marilynne Robinson's review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.
- March 2015
The Heavenly Horses of C. S. Lewis
A Pilgrim in Narnia
Guest post on equine imagery in Lewis's fiction and the Book of Revelation.
- December 2007
His Dark Material
The Wall Street Journal
An essay on Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and C. S. Lewis's Narnia series. Highlighted on The Chronicle of Education's Arts & Letters Daily, December 2007.
Full publication list
Complete academic bibliography available in the CV.