Recent Essays and Reviews

       Harper’s Magazine

Leveling the Field: What I learned from for-profit education (October 2011)

Supernumerary: On stage with the People’s Opera (March 2011)

       The New York Times Book Review

You May Have Heard of Her: The novels of (the other) Elizabeth Taylor (February 10, 2012)

Kim Jong-il’s Romantic Rival: Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son (January 13, 2012)

Bears, Dolphins and the Animal Stories We Tell: Four Books about Animals (December 25, 2011)

Living the Varieties of Virtual Experience: Alex Shakar’s Luminarium (September 2, 2011)

What Makes Literature Literature?: Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature (April 5, 2011)

Primal Urges: Benjamin Hale’s The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (February 4, 2011)

Our Unlettered Landscape: David Ulin’s The Lost Art of Reading (November 26, 2010)

       The London Review of Books

What the Organ-Grinder Said: Andrés Neuman’s Traveler of the Century (April 5, 2012)

Reconstruction: Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot (October 6, 2011)

       New York Magazine

Bar Room U: On the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (April 1, 2012)



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