Articles, Essays & Film Criticism
Articles, essays and op-eds
- "Marriage and death; wishes and fears"
- The Boston Globe
- September 5, 1997
- "All the Right Moves"
- The Boston Globe
- November 26, 2000
- "Two steps forward"
- The Boston Globe Magazine
- November 26, 2000
- "Shawmut Avenue"
- Architecture Boston
- July-August 2006
- "At Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres"
- AGNI
- July 2006
- "Singing the same optimistic tune"
- The Boston Globe
- February 17, 2008
- "The riddle of education: Why is it the last priority?"
- The Boston Globe
- March 2, 2009
- "Saving El Savador"
- The Boston Globe
- March 9, 2009
- "Rabbit Relinquished"
- The Boston Globe
- March 16, 2009
- "Writer in Chief"
- The Boston Globe
- March 23, 2009
- "Invisible Spring"
- The Boston Globe
- March 30, 2009
- "The Democracy of Dance"
- The Boston Globe
- April 6, 2009
- "Sukiyaki Song"
- Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy, eds., Serving House Books
- The Book of Worst Meals: 25 Authors Write About Terrible Culinary Experiences
- 2010
- "Alice Hoffman: A Profile"
- Ploughshares, Volume 37, Number 4
- Winter 2011-2012
- "Phrases of Movement"
- R. A. Rycraft and Leslie What, eds., Serving House Books
- Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
- 2012
- "Birth control fight is still being fought"
- The Boston Globe
- June 6, 2012
- "How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write — And Heal"
- Lit Hub
- November 10, 2021
- "The Ultimate Alchemy (Excerpt)"
- Ploughshares
- Winter 20/21
- "The Afterlife of a Suicide (Excerpt)"
- The American Scholar
- Winter 2021
- "Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband's Suicide"
- Lit Hub
- August 2024
- "Men's Rights and Nothing More, Women's Rights and Nothing Less: Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past"
- The American Prospect
- September 2024
- "JD Vance and the return of the birth control battle"
- The Boston Globe
- January 20, 2025
Film criticism
- "What's Wrong With This Picture?"
- The American Prospect
- December 6, 1999
- "Inside John Malkovich"
- The American Prospect
- January 3, 2000
- "Word of Mouth"
- The American Prospect
- May 8, 2000
- "The Prince is Dead. Long Live the Prince."
- The American Prospect
- June 19, 2000