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Selected Essays & Memoirs
- “Affording to Live” –The Threepenny Review, Winter 2023
- “Diary: Of Bombs, a Bomb Shelter, and Active Shooter Drills” (pdf) – London Review of Books, September 13, 2018
- “Happy & Glorious: THE CROWN” (pdf) – Salmagundi, Summer-Fall 2017
- “Uncle Hans in Exile, ЛЕХАНМ” – Fall 2015; The American Scholar, Winter 1994
- “On the British Museum Reading Room” (pdf) – Table Talk from The Threepenny Review, 2015; The Threepenny Review, Winter 2001
- “Facts for Fiction” (pdf) – Novel Writing: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, 2015
- “Desolation Row” (pdf) – Prospect, April 2014
- “Mother Country” – Mentors, Muses & Monsters, 2009; The American Scholar, Autumn 2009
- “Cold as Life” (pdf) – Harper’s, June 2009
- “Unhappy Together” (pdf) – Harper’s, March 2009
- “The Other Side of Silence” (pdf) – Harper’s, April 2008
- “Waugh vs. Waugh” (pdf) – Harper’s, August 2007
- “A Delicious Torment” (pdf) – Harper’s, June 2007
- “Revisiting Brideshead” – Rereadings, 2005; The American Scholar, Autumn 1998
- “The Wittgenstein Controversy” (pdf) – The Atlantic Monthly, June 1997
- “Biographia Literaria” (pdf) – The Threepenny Review, Spring 1994
- “Catch a Falling Star” (pdf) – Art & Antiques, May 1994
- “The Subversive George Gissing” (pdf) – The American Scholar, Winter 1990