Review of Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1 (New York Times Book Review, 2017)
Foreword to the Penguin Classics Edition of The Scarlet Letter (2016)
Review of Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins (New York Times Book Review, 2015)
Review of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (New York Times Book Review, 2013)
Foreword to the Best American Short Stories of 2012 (Houghton Mifflin, 2012)
Introduction to the new paperback edition of Bad Haircut (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
“Brat Pack Blues” (The Guardian, 2008)
Introduction to the UK edition of The Abstinence Teacher (Fourth Estate, 2008)
“The Squeamish American” (New York Times Magazine, 2007)
“Revenge of the Teens” (GQ, 2001)
“The Cosmic Significance of Britney Spears” (GQ, 2001)
“Men in Brown” (New York Times Magazine, 1999)