SELECTED ARTICLES & REVIEWS

On September 11, Greek Tragedy, and the Movies
The New York Review of Books, September 2006
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On Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man
The New York Review of Books, April 2011
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On Mad Men
The New York Review of Books, February 2011
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On the Memoir Craze
The New Yorker, January 2010
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On The Melancholy of the Classics
(Berkeley Commencement Address, May 2009)
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On Phony Holocaust Memoirs
The New York Times Op-Ed, March 2008
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On Brokeback Mountain
The New York Review of Books, January 2006
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On Olympics Kitsch
The New York Times Magazine, August 2004
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On James Wood’s Novel
The New York Times Book Review, July 2003
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On Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
The New York Review of Books, January 2003
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On Nomi Eve’s Yiddishkeit
New York, October 2000
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On Hannah Green’s Little Saint
New York, July 2000
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On Kathryn Harrison’s The Binding Chair
New York, May 2000
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On A New Charterhouse of Parma
The New York Times Book Review, August 1999
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On A New Greek Tragedy Translation
The New York Times Book Review, July 1998
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On Anne Rice’s Servant of the Bones
The New York Times Book Review, August 1996
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“Republicans Can Be Cured!”
New York Times Op-Ed, July 1993
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FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS ESSAYS
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