Selected Publications
Work
Featured
Included in The Contemporary American Essay, Pantheon, 2021
"Differences: Sex, Separateness, and Marriage"
Salmagundi
2013
Notable in Best American Essays
"Better Practices in Mourning"
Southwest Review
2009
Featured in "NB" column in The Times Literary Supplement
"Thucydides and the Powell Doctrine"
Raritan
2004
Column
Ongoing
Selected Publications
2025
2023
2022
“When I Couldn't Look at Myself in the Mirror, My Friend Looked For Me”
The Normal School
An illustrated essay: words by Shifra Sharlin, portraits by Carol Troen. May 4, 2022
2019
2018
2014
“Differences: Sex, Separateness, and Marriage”
Salmagundi
Included in The Contemporary American Essay, Pantheon, 2021
“Not Against Irony”
Hotel Amerika
“On Hearing Hans Joas Lecture About the Soul”
New Letters
Winter 2012
2009
2008
“Thucydides and the Powell Doctrine”
Raritan
Featured in “NB” column in The Times Literary Supplement