Books & Other Writing
Novels
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The Court of Common Pleas
- 2001
- Houghton Mifflin
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Gus in Bronze
- 1977
- Alfred A. Knopf
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Something Borrowed
- 1997
- Houghton Mifflin
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The Brass Bed
- 1985
- Doubleday & Company
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Tender Offer
- 1981
- Alfred A. Knopf
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Non-fiction
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The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide
- November 2021
- Arrowsmith Press
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Still Waters
- 1978
- Morrow
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Short fiction
- "Adopting Sarajevo"
- A Ploughshares Solo
- Ploughshares
- October 2015
- "Fluent"
- Thomas E. Kennedy and Walter Cummins, eds., Serving House Books
- The Girl with Red Hair: Musings on a Theme
- 2011
- "Come and Get Me"
- Five Points
- Volume 12, Number 3, Spring 2009
- "Ode to Joy"
- Hunger Mountain
- Spring 2008
- "Punchline"
- The Cape Cod Voice
- 2001-2007
- "Do Not Open"
- The Cape Cod Voice
- 2001-2007
- "Child Widow"
- Plougshares
- Volume 29, Numbers 2-3, Fall 2003
- "Wedding Pictures"
- AGNI #43
- 1996
Articles, essays & op-eds
- "The Afterlife of a Suicide (Excerpt)"
- The American Scholar
- Winter 2021
- "The Ultimate Alchemy (Excerpt)"
- Ploughshares
- Winter 20/21
- "Birth control fight is still being fought"
- The Boston Globe
- June 6, 2012
- "Phrases of Movement"
- R. A. Rycraft and Leslie What, eds., Serving House Books
- Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
- 2012
- "Alice Hoffman: A Profile"
- Ploughshares, Volume 37, Number 4
- Winter 2011-2012
- "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
- "The Democracy of Dance"
- The Boston Globe
- April 6, 2009
- "Invisible Spring"
- The Boston Globe
- March 30, 2009
- "Writer in Chief"
- The Boston Globe
- March 23, 2009
- "Saving El Savador"
- The Boston Globe
- March 9, 2009
- "Rabbit Relinquished"
- The Boston Globe
- March 16, 2009
- "The riddle of education: Why is it the last priority?"
- The Boston Globe
- March 2, 2009
- "Singing the same optimistic tune"
- The Boston Globe
- February 17, 2008
- "At Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres"
- AGNI
- July 2006
- "Shawmut Avenue"
- Architecture Boston
- July-August 2006
- "Two steps forward"
- The Boston Globe Magazine
- November 26, 2000
- "All the Right Moves"
- The Boston Globe
- November 26, 2000
- "Marriage and death; wishes and fears"
- The Boston Globe
- September 5, 1997
Film criticism
- "The Prince is Dead. Long Live the Prince."
- The American Prospect
- June 19, 2000
- "Word of Mouth"
- The American Prospect
- May 8, 2000
- "Inside John Malkovich"
- The American Prospect
- January 3, 2000
- "What's Wrong With This Picture?"
- The American Prospect
- December 6, 1999