Nonfiction
Here are links to a selection of articles I've published in print and online.
Click on the title of the essay to read the full text.
Essays
“The Queering of Nick Carraway,” The Millions
"Ernest Hemingway: Middlebrow Revolutionary," The Millions
"Uh-oh: Where does all the white rage go when Donald Trump loses?" Salon
"We Didn't Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us," New York Times Magazine
"Don't let schools turn into lockdown zones," The Globe and Mail
"The High Line: New York's Monument to Gentrification," The Millions
"Fifty Years On: Jane Jacobs and the Rebirth of New York," The Millions
"Remembering Gore Vidal: A dying breed," The Economist
"Going Postal Goes Abroad," The Morning News
"Embracing the Other I Am; or, How Walt Whitman Saved My Life," The Millions
"The power of the selfless gift," Baltimore Sun
Book Reviews
"Review: James Laxer’s Staking Claims to a Continent offers a reflection on the people and moments that shaped North America," The Globe and Mail
"Review: A writer heads to the Philippines in John Irving's Avenue of Mysteries, but it is his Mexican childhood where the novel truly shines," The Globe and Mail
"Review: Despite a cast of quirky characters, Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor is a muddle," The Globe and Mail
"The Back of the Turtle, by Thomas King: Review," The National Post
"America, Meet the Real Atticus Finch," The Millions
"Getting With the Program: On MFA vs. NYC," The Millions
"A Slingshot Full of Stories: On Malcolm Gladwell's David & Goliath," The Millions
"An Antic Satire of the Dubya Years," The Los Angeles Review of Books
Reported Articles
“The Future of Barnes & Noble,” Poets & Writers Magazine
"A Day in the Life of a Book Editor," Poets & Writers Magazine
"Yaa Gyasi's debut 'Homegoing' stuns with blend of intimacy and analysis," The Georgia Straight
"How the Book Business Invented Modern Gift-Giving," Literary Hub
"Matthew Thomas: The million-dollar debutant," The Economist
"Joseph Boyden: Tales of conflict," The Economist
"The Curious History of 'The Inconvenient Indian'," The Los Angeles Review of Books
I’ve been a contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine since 2012 and have had an article in nearly every issue of the magazine since August 2011. Unfortunately, most of those articles are print only so I can’t link to them here.