The New York Times: "Book Thief." A Review of Allison Hoover Bartlett's The Man Who Loved Books Too Much. 2 Oct. 2010.
Bookforum: "Verballing Abuse." A Review of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story. June/July/Aug. 2010
The New York Times: "The Art of Pain." A Review of Paul Guest's memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. 11 June, 2010.
The Believer: "Every Reader Finds Himself: Notes on the Book I Didn't Write About Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf" One man’s single-minded immersion in the five-foot bookshelf that birthed the modern American research university. May 2009.
The Believer: "A Partisan of Eternity" Before Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, critics wondered if he was American enough‚ and then hebecame 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: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 Hawke's contemptible imagination. Dec./Jan. 2004/5.
