JOURNALISM
Oct. 27, 2003
Diplomatic Immunity: Not Lost in Translation
Oct. 26, 2024 | Opinion
You’ll Have to Take My Glass From My Cold, Wine-Stained Hand
July 6, 2024 | Book Review
In “Russian Gothic,” a Veteran’s Paranoia and Delirium Reflect a Nation’s
Sep. 3, 2022 | Opinion
The Post-Colonoscopy Male Friendship Test
Nov. 16, 2021 | Book Review
The True-Life Inspiration for Dostoyevsky’s Famous Murderer
Mar. 22, 2020 | Book Review
Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic
Nov. 7, 2019 | Book Review
A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story
April 7, 2019 | Sunday Review
My Daughter’s America – And Mine
Aug. 12, 2018 | Book Review
‘A Terrible Country’ That’s Impossible Not to Love
November 19, 2017 | Sunday Review
God Is in the Salad Dressing
June 11, 2017 | Book Review
Just Another Nutty June Weekend in the Rockaways
January 13, 2017 | Book Review
Author’s Note: On Being Translated Back To Myself
August 21, 2016 | Book Review
A Novel Imagines Putin Is Retired and Has Dementia
May 29, 2016 | Book Review
Critic’s Take: Moscow’s Magic Realism
July 19, 2015 | Book Review
A Cargo of Gaudy Misrule
Feb. 20, 2015 | Book Review
Lies, First Person
Oct. 19, 2014 | Book Review
The Power of the Powerless
Jul. 27, 2014 | Magazine
The Empties
Jan. 10, 2014 | Book Review
Dear Sasha, Dear Volodya
Jun. 28, 2010 | T Magazine
Dispatch | Cooke City, Montana
Nov. 18, 2007 | T Magazine
Mexico’s Cultural Revolution
Mar. 12, 2006 | Book Review
The News From Siberia
Aug. 21, 2005 | Magazine
The Anti-Collector
Jul. 6, 2005 | Book Review
Wartime Rations
Nov. 21, 2004 | The City
Where Is Home, If the Place You Come From No Longer Exists?
2021
River of Dreams
2021
Moving Mountains
2019
Creative Suite
2017
Could the Baltic States Be the Next Scandinavia?
2017
This Lake Is Montana’s Best Kept Secret
2017
In St. Croix, A Culinary Awakening
2015
Kinetic City: In Moscow, An Unexpected Creative Revolution
Sep. 2023
One of Washington’s Most Remarkable Wine Regions Isn’t Where You Think It Is
Aug. 2, 2004
Laughter in the Dark
Oct. 17, 2005
Burgher King
Feb. 20, 2005
Marginal Contributions
Sep. 24, 2009
Give My Regards To Your Lovely Spouse
Apr. 18, 2014
Love Among the Ruins
Apr. 25, 2014
Looking for Malamud
Jul. 27, 2018
With A Sapphire Ring, We Embraced The Uncertain
Nov. 26, 2014
Grandmother, Grandfather, and Me
June 23, 2015
Turns Out All the Advice My Father Ever Gave Me Was Right
2018
Vienna Duet
Feb. 26, 2019
Learning to Love a Ukrainian Chicken Liver Pie
2018
Everything You Think You Know About Anton Chekhov Is Wrong
February 26, 2018
More Russian Meddling: A Review of Paul Goldberg’s “The Chateau”
April 26, 2018
Collection of Jewish jokes shouldn’t shy from the sorrow behind the humor: A Review of Devorah Baum’s “The Jewish Joke”
Nov. 15, 2024
The Art of the Betsy
June 2, 2022
There Is Always Room In Life For a Valorous Deed
June 25, 2018
The Last Thing He Taught Me and the First Thing I Learned
Hanukkah 5777
Bulletin: On Hunting Pokemons in Moscow’s Religious Institutions
Jan. 26, 2012
The Stranger
Nov. 18, 2010
Old Ways
Nov. 03, 2010
Under the Chuppah
Sep. 24, 2009
A Pilgrim in Provincetown – Four Centuries Later
Aug. 24, 2014
Apocalypse Without End
Mar. 02, 2007
The Man Who Would Be King
Jun. 17, 2005
Back From the Shadows
Oct. 01, 2007
Paid in Persimmons
Jan. 30, 2003
Morocco Journal
Oct. 26. 2024
‘It was wickedly painful. And transformative’: a tribute to all the women…
2016
Russian Soup for the Soul: How Cooking Helped Me Love Again
2014
My Parents Helped Me Lose My Virginity
2021
Elevator Pitches
2015
The Bazaar and the Monastery
Any journalist worth his salt has more rejected pieces than published ones. (Or so I console myself.) And they are better than the published ones. (I insist.) Here are some of my favorites:
2023
Shouldn’t Liberals Support Legacy Admissions?
2020
Dreamboat
2020
Oxygen Oracle
2020
Humbert the Homeless: On Lolita as Chaste Torment, Immigrant Memoir, and True Love
2020
I miss the cleaning liquid in Mexico…
2020
The Soapy Subtlety of Norway’s “Occupied”
2018
Lucky
2014
Believers
2011
Pockets Still Empty, But Now They Are Deeper
2011
The Double
2006
After Katrina
2009
A Dirty Apron
2003
Homeward Bound