“‘My Malformed Bones’: Harry Crews’s Counterlives” (Harper’s Magazine)

“Open, Heaven” (New York Times)

“Between a Joke and a Prophecy” (New York Review of Books)

“Early Sobrieties” (New York Times)

“‘Rear Window’ Redux” (New York Times)

“The Way of All Flesh” (New York Review of Books)

“The Bottle as Hero” (Times Literary Supplement)

“Is It Justice or a Journey Into Hell, or Both?” (New York Times)

“Magda Szabó and the Cost of Censorship” (The New Yorker, online)

“The Birthday Party is a Masterful Literary Thriller” (Gawker)

“Hermann Burger’s Frenzied Harmonies” (The Nation)

“Beyond Good and Evil” (Times Literary Supplement)

“The Cruelty Is Coming From Inside the House” (New York Times)

“New Eyes” (The Paris Review, online)

“Prince at the Capitol” (The Paris Review, online)

“Bard, Misunderstood” (The Baffler)

Interview with Anthony Veasna So (Soft Punk Magazine)

Interview with Lauren Oyler (Soft Punk Magazine)

Interview with Maureen N. McLane (Soft Punk Magazine)