Essays

On Norman Rush's Mating (The Point, 2021)
On Darryl Pinckney (Times Literary Supplement, 2020)
On Oliver Sacks (Times Literary Supplement, 2019)
On Seymour Hersh’s Memoir (New York Review of Books, 2019)
On Susan Orlean’s The Library Book (Times Literary Supplement, 2019)
The Triumph of Philanthropy (Lapham’s Quarterly, 2018)
A Journey to Bursa, Turkey (Mint, 2017)
On Benedict Anderson's memoir (The Nation, 2016)
Beckett in Istanbul (Times Literary Supplement, 2017)
On George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, The Paris Review and the CIA (The Nation, 2009)
On the Paris Review Interviews (The Nation, 2010)
On V.S. Naipaul (The Nation, 2008)
On Amiri Baraka (Dissent, 2002)
On Murray Kempton (Tikkun, 1999)
On Herbert Matthews and The New York Times (London Review of Books, 2007)
On Christopher Hitchens (Columbia Journalism Review, 2010)
On Geoff Dyer (The Nation, 2011)
On Saul Bellow's letters (Dissent, 2010)
On Mario Vargas Llosa's memoir (The Common Review, 2012)
Review of "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers" at the International Center of Photography (The Nation, 2005)