“Affording to LIve,” The Threepenny Review, Winter 2023

 

“Diary: Of Bombs, a Bomb Shelter, and Active Shooter Drills,” London Review of Books, September 13, 2018

“Happy & Glorious: THE CROWN,” Salmagundi, Summer-Fall 2017

“Uncle Hans in Exile, ”ЛЕХАНМ", Fall 2015; The American Scholar, Winter 1994

“On the British Museum Reading Room,” Table Talk from The Threepenny Review, 2015; The Threepenny Review, Winter 2001

“Facts for Fiction,” Novel Writing: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, 2015

“Desolation Row,” Prospect, April 2014

“Mother Country,” Mentors, Muses & Monsters, 2009; The American Scholar, Autumn 2009

“Cold as Life,” Harper’s, June 2009

“Unhappy Together,” Harper’s, March 2009

“The Other Side of Silence, Harper’s, April 2008

“Waugh vs. Waugh,” Harper’s, August 2007

“A Delicious Torment,” Harper’s, June 2007

“Revisiting Brideshead,” Rereadings, 2005; The American Scholar, Autumn 1998

“The Wittgenstein Controversy,” The Atlantic Monthly, June 1997

“Biographia Literaria,” The Threepenny Review, Spring 1994

“Catch a Falling Star,” Art & Antiques, May 1994

“The Subversive George Gissing,” The American Scholar, Winter 1990