“All Despotisms Must End: On Lydia Moland’s ‘Lydia Maria Child'” The L.A. Review of Books
“An Epic Poem for Queens, NY: Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Ms. Metropolitan” Brooklyn Rail
“How The Queen’s Gambit Reimagined Chess” The New Republic
“The Trial of the Chicago 7 is The Warriors meets 12 Angry Men, with a Sorta Happy Ending in an Oblique Way” The Journal of the Plague Year
“Inkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day” Brooklyn Rail
“Self-Flagellation in the Pursuit of Atonement” The L.A. Review of Books
“The Mere Articulation of Significance” Brooklyn Rail
“Joe Pan’s ‘Operating Systems'” Brooklyn Rail
“Mind ablaze: How a massive fire led Susan Orlean to write ‘The Library Book’” San Francisco Chronicle
“‘Reading Through the Night,’ by Jane Tompkins” San Francisco Chronicle
“The Charred Remains of the Fairy Tale” The L.A. Review of Books
“A Voice from the Pit” Brooklyn Rail
“The Movement Toward Art” Brooklyn Rail
“A Poet is a Mood” Brooklyn Rail
“Amputations and Oversights” The Millions
“‘Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids,’ by Nicholson Baker” San Francisco Chronicle
“One Monster Replaces Another” The Millions
“Queen Esther of the Potboilers” The Baffler
“Worry and the Mordant Wallow” Brooklyn Rail
“Enlarging the Perception of Beauty” Brooklyn Rail
“How to Browse” Brooklyn Rail
“Serial Reader” The L.A. Review of Books
“A Portrait of the Reader as a Miraculating Agent” The Brooklyn Rail
“Saving Doubts” Bookforum
“Oh, the Posthumanity!” Bookforum
“Holmes Sweet Holmes” Bookforum
“Hail, Thetan!” Bookforum
“Killing the Thetan” Killing the Buddha
“Finding Bobby Fischer, Sadly” The Los Angeles Times
“How to Be Good, and Win Anyway” The Brooklyn Rail
“The Poetry Lesson, by Andrei Codrescu” The Quarterly Conversation
“How to Endure” The LA Review of Books
“The Digital Apocalypsee is Now” The Chronicle Review