The Believer: "A Partisan of Eternity" Before Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, critics wondered if he was American enough‚ and then he became too quintessentially American for critical respectability. February 2009.
Tin House: "The Study of Perfection" William F. Buckley and T.S. Eliot aside, you're free to be a conservative in literature and a liberal in politics. Issue #37, September 2008. [full text will open in a separate browser window.]
The New York Times Sunday Book Review: "The Lost World." A review of Stephen Marshe's Shining At the Bottom of the Sea. 9 Sept. 2007.
Bookforum: "Magical History Tour." A review of John Crowley's Endless Things. April/May 2007.
The Believer: "Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins."A weekend in four constraints. September 2006.
The Believer: "Night Driving." John Hawkes's contemptible imagination. Dec./Jan. 2004/5.
