"Regarding the Royal Consummation"The New York Times Magazine Blog, May 13, 2011
"Nine Is Enough"The New York Times Magazine blog, May 9, 2011.
"The Professor and the Lieutenant"The New York Times Magazine blog, April 8, 2011.
"Regular Old Twins"The New York Times Magazine Blog, April 4, 2011
"In Memory of Smoking"The New York Times Magazine blog, March 10, 2011
"Optic Sonic Yin Yang"The New York Times Magazine blog, March 7, 2011.
"Murphy Balcony"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2007
"Lightning Farms"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2007
"Braille Tattoo"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2007
"Arnold Odermatt: On Duty"
The Believer, December/January 2007 (about a Swiss police officer who photographed car accidents on the roads of Niwalden Canton for 40 years)
"Our Weird Uncle Eakins"
"Did the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century drink too much milk?" The Believer, December 2005/January 2006
“Punditry: Have Doctorate, Will Comment”
The New York Times, August 1999 (about a new “Public Intellectual” Ph.D. program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton)
“(Real) Games (Real) People Play”
The New York Times Magazine, January 1999 (about the “Illegal Games” exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art)
“My Elephant Could Paint That”
The New York Times Magazine, November 1998 (about Russian émigré conceptual artists Komar and Melamid)
“No Chickens Will be Harmed"
The New York Times Magazine, August 1998 (about The Fringe Theater Festival in New York)
“Frank Lloyd Riders"
The New York Times Magazine, June 1998 (about the motorcycle exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum)
“Tonya: The Long and Potholed Road”
The New York Times Magazine, February 1998 (about Tonya Harding’s relationship with the media)
“I’ve Been Very Bad”
The New York Times Magazine, October 1997 (about the literary trend towards confessional non-fiction)
The Train to Lo Wu: Stories
by Jess Row, The Believer, February 2005
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson, The Believer, November 2004
Bad Move: A Novel
by Linwood Barclay, The Dallas Morning News, July 2004
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
by Paul Collins, The Dallas Morning News, August 2003
The Future of Ideas
by Lawrence Lessig, Wired Magazine, December 2001
Intoxicating Minds: How Drugs Work
by Ciaran Regan, Wired Magazine, August 2001
Filth: A Novel
by Irvine Welsh, Swing Magazine, October 1998
W.W. Norton
Duchamp: A Biography
by Calvin Tomkins, Art & Antiques, December 1996
Conversations with Tom Stoppard
by Mel Gussow, Time Out New York, September 1996
Angela’s Ashes
by Frank McCourt, Salon.com, September 1996
Accordian Crimes
by E. Annie Proulx, Time Out New York, June 1996
Cruising Paradise: Tales
by Sam Shepard, Time Out New York, May 1996
“Questions for Irshad Manji”
The New York Times Magazine, December 2003 (author of The Trouble With Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith)
“Questions For Jhumpa Lahiri”
The New York Times Magazine, September 2003 (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake)
“Questions For Chuck Palahniuk”
The New York Times Magazine, September 2002 (author of Fight Club and Lullaby)
“The Man from Neen: A Conversation with Miltos Manetas”
Salon.com, March 2002 (new media artist and founder of the so-called NEEN movement)
“Questions For Gene Simmons”
The New York Times Magazine, December 2001 (musician, tongue exhibitionist, blood-spewer and author of KISS and Make Up)
“Questions For Wallace Shawn”
The New York Times Magazine, August 2001 (actor and playwright)
“Questions For Julia Sweeney”
The New York Times Magazine, February 1999 (actress and playwright)
“Questions for Mike Wallace”'
The New York Times Magazine, November 1998 (author of Gotham: A History of New York to 1898)
“Questions For Emily Jenkins”
The New York Times Magazine, August 1998 (author of Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture)
Frank McCourt
The New York Times Magazine ("Money" issue), June 1998 (author of Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis)
“Questions For Robert Dallek”
The New York Times Magazine, April 1998 (historian and author of a biography on Lyndon Johnson)
“Questions for T.C. Boyle”
The New York Times Magazine, February 1998 (author of Riven Rock)
“Talking With Lynne Tillman”
Newsday, February 1998 (author of No Lease on Life)
“Questions For Claudio Tamburrini”
The New York Times Magazine, February 1998 (professor of “sports philosophy”)
“Talking With David Gates”
Newsday, January 1998 (Newsweek critic and author of Preston Falls and Jernigan)
“Questions For Piet Vroon”
The New York Times Magazine, August 1997 (professor of psychology at Utrecht University, author of Smell: the Secret Seducer)
“Questions For Anita Hill”
The New York Times Magazine, September 1997 (author of Speaking Truth to Power)
Robert Bingham
Time Out New York, July 1997 (author of Pure Slaughter Value)
“Questions for Thomas Lynch”
The New York Times Magazine, July 1997 (poet, essayist and mortician, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade)
A Supposedly True Thing or Two: An Interview with David Foster Wallace
Time Out New York, January 1997 (on publication of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again)
“Questions for Lisa Carver”
The New York Times Magazine, November 1996 (creator and editor of the 'zine Rollerderby and author of Dancing Queen: A Lusty Look at the American Dream)
Robert Olen Butler
Time Out New York, November 1996 (author of a A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and Tabloid Dreams)
Mona Simpson
Time Out New York, October 1996 (author of A Regular Guy)
