Essays

SELECTED ARTICLES & REVIEWS

 

 

On Pat Barker’s Novels of the Trojan War
The New Yorker
25 October 2021
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On David Mitchell’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Novel and the Limits of Fantasy
New York Times Book Review
10 July 2020
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On Knausgaard, Autofiction, Hitler, and Suits
New York Times Book Review
24 September 2018
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On How Not To Treat College Professors
Town and Country
August 2017
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On My Roommate, the Dancing Countess
The New Yorker 
16 June 2017
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On iPhones, Politics, and the End of Civility
Town & Country 
29 June 2016
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On Sappho
The New Yorker
16 March 2015
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On Game of Thrones
The New York Review of Books
7 November 2013
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A Cemetery Dream
NYBlog (The New York Review of Books online)
30 May 2013
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On Critics and Criticism
The New Yorker “Page Turner” 
28 August 2012
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On Why We Can’t Let Go of the Titanic
The New Yorker 
April 2012
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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 Phony Holocaust Memoirs
The New York Times Op-Ed 
March 2008
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On September 11, Greek Tragedy, and the Movies
The New York Review of Books 
September 2006
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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 Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
The New York Review of Books 
January 2003
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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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