My Soul Frets in the Shadow of His Language: Conjunctions, Spring 2025 (retitled at Literary Hub: Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern)

Who Walks Always Beside You?: Harper’s Magazine, August 2023

The Lost Child: Harper’s Podcast with Christopher Beha, August, 2023

Tower of Silence: Mud Season Review, Vol. 3, April 2017

On Machines that Shit, and Fictional Characters That Do Not: Literary Hub, June 2016

Embracing the World, from High to Low: An Interview with Benjamin Hale: Interview by Annabel Graff, American Short Fiction, May 2016

Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Boy: LA Review of Books Quarterly, Spring 2016

Don’t Worry Baby: The Paris Review, Issue 216, Spring 2016

Hate Expectations: Dissent, October 2015

Brother Who Comes Back before the Next Very Big Winter: Conjunctions, Spring 2015

Book World review: ‘The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac’ by Sharma Shields: The Washington Post, March 2015

For Pleasure: A Letter: Dissent, Fall 2014

Come Here Often?: 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar: Black Balloon Publishing, October 2014

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013: HarperCollins, October 2013

Book World review: ‘Babayaga’ by Toby Barlow: The Washington Post, August 2013

Conjunctions:61: A Menagerie

Venus at Her Mirror: Conjunctions, Spring 2013

The Half-Silvered Mirror: The Atlas Review, April 2013

The Last Distinction?: Harper’s Magazine, August, 2012

A Q&A with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: Harper’s Magazine, 2012

A Passion for Immortality: On the Missing Pulitzer and the Problem with Prizes: The Millions, May 2012

A Year in Reading: Benjamin Hale: The Millions, December 2011

The Sad Story of Nim Chimpsky: Dissent, Summer 2011

King James, Revised: History’s best seller turns 400: Harper’s Magazine, June 2011

A Scrappy Slum Urchin Goes to Sea: The New York Times, June 2011

The Minus World: Conjunctions, Spring 2011

Were You Born Selfish?: An Interview with Frans de Waal: Religion Dispatches, May 2011

May Mix by Benjamin Hale: Electric Literature, May 2011