A Millionaire of Words: On James Joyce
The Dublin Review of Books, May 2013
Invisible Man: The Biographies of J. D. Salinger
Hyperallergic, March 2013
Lady Lazarus: Sylvia Plath's Contested Afterlife
Hyperallergic, February 2013
The Art of the Critic: On James Wood
Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2012
Addled by Books: On Enrique Vila-Matas
Dublin Review of Books: Issue 23, November 2012
Hyperallergic Weekend, October 2012
Defiance unto Death: On Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
The Millions, September 2012
Booze Muse: Kingsley Amis, the Laureate of Hangovers
Hyperallergic Weekend, September 2012
Bookforum Talks with Zadie Smith
Bookforum, September 2012
Bookforum Talks with Martin Amis
Bookforum, August 2012
The Unbearable Triteness of Being: Ridley Scott's Prometheus
Hyperallergic Weekend, July 2012
Not the Man We Used to Be: An Anthropologist's View of the New Weaker Sex
Hyperallergic Weekend, June 2012
Failing Better: Ian Hamilton and The New Review
The Millions, June 2012
Crossed Signals: Brian Evenson's Stories Blend Genre and Literary Conventions
Hyperallergic Weekend, June 2012
The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2012
The Verse That Could Happen: National Poetry Month to the Rescue?
Hyperallergic Weekend, April 2012
Larkin's Way: Philip Larkin's Complete Poems
Idiom Magazine, April 2012
Book Spurning: The People's Library at OWS
Hyperallergic Weekend, April 2012
The Common Online, March 2012
When I Hear the Word Poetry, I Reach for My Frequent Flyer Miles
Hyperallergic Weekend, March 2012
The Other Walk by Sven Birkerts
The Quarterly Conversation, March 2012
Hyperallergic Weekend, February 2012
Bookforum, February 2012
Flying Forward into the Zone: Cesár Aira
Hyperallergic Weekend, February 2012
Modernity and its Discontents: George Scialabba
The Millions, January 2012
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
KGB Bar Lit Journal, December 2011
A Teacher of a Different Kind: On Siddhartha Deb
Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2011
Interview with Susan Bernofsky
Bookforum, November 2011
The Birth of a Salesman: Helen DeWitt
Open Letters Monthly, October 2011
The Very Best Kind: On Lionel Trilling
Idiom Magazine, October 2011
Ugarte Magazine, October 2011
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
Bookforum, September 2011
Bookforum, September 2011
Everything United in Her: William Deresiewicz
Open Letters Monthly, August 2011
Open Letters Monthly, May 2011
“Pretty Hardcore”: Naja Marie Aidt in Brooklyn
Ugarte Magazine, May 2011
Bookforum, May 2011
The Sad Flaneuse: Rachel Wetzsteon
Open Letters Monthly, March 2011
Den Litterære Rebel: Roberto Bolaño
Kulturkapellet, March 2011
Literature is Dead, Long Live Literature: Gregory Jusdanis
Open Letters Monthly, January 2011
Temporarily Miracle-Sodden: Saul Bellow
Open Letters Monthly, December 2010
The Master of the Not Quite: James Wood
The Quarterly Conversation, June 2010