My
Anticipation Addiction
Cognoscenti, WBUR
opinion page, February 4, 2013
A
Light to Read By
on "Artful," by Ali Smith
New York Times Book Review,
February 3, 2013
The
First Step in Coping With Newtown
Cognoscenti, WBUR
opinion page, December 19, 2012
The
Mysterious Power of the Christmas Tree
Cognoscenti, WBUR
opinion page, December 13, 2012
The
Courage to Say I Don't Know
Cognoscenti, WBUR
opinion page, October 16, 2012
Love
Stories
on "This is How You Lose Her," by Junot Diaz
New York Times Book Review,
September 20, 2012
Point
of Return
on "Home," by Toni Morrison
New York Times Book Review,
May 17, 2012
A
Mysterious Message From Mother
on "When Women Were Birds," by Terry Tempest Williams
Toronto Globe and Mail,
May 3, 2012
Outcry
Over Absent Pulitzer
The Boston Globe,
April 22, 2012
Short
Stories, Long Career
profile of Edith Pearlman
The Boston Globe,
April 10, 2012
The
Dreariest
Art, or Why I Write Book Reviews
Post Road, Issue
22
An
Ambitious Expansion on a Russian Folktale
on "The Snow Child," by Eowyn Ivey
Toronto Globe and Mail,
March 18, 2012
Coincidental
Tourists
on "These Dreams of You," by Steve Erickson
New York Times Book Review, February 3, 2012
And We Did Not Speak Out
on "Children and Fire," by Ursula Hegi
New York Times Book Review, June 26, 2011
In the Country of the Absurd
on "The Free World," by David Bezmozgis
Toronto Globe and Mail April 1, 2011
Stories of Love and Grief
on "Widow," by Michelle Latiolais
New York Times Book Review February 20, 2011
Holiday Books: Americana
on "And the Pursuit of Happiness," by Maira Kalman
New York Times Book Review December 5, 2010
Summer of '44
on "Nemesis," by Philip Roth
New York Times Book Review October 10, 2010
Simian Says
on "Ape House," by Sara Gruen
New York Times Book Review September 3, 2010
Daddy Dearest
on "Father of the Rain," by Lily King
Boston Globe, July
25, 2010
Pre-exisiting
Conditions
on "So Much for That," by Lionel Shriver
New York Times Book Review March 11, 2010
Cruel
Love
on "Shadow Tag," by Louise Erdrich
New York Times Book Review February 5, 2010
Alice
Munro’s Object Lessons
on "Too Much Happiness," by Alice Munro
New York Times Book Review November 29, 2009
Feminine
Mystique
on "A Short History of Women," by Kate Walbert
New York Times Book Review June 14, 2009
American
Quilt
on "Follow Me," by Joanna Scott
New York Times Book Review April 19, 2009
Rough
Crossing
on "The Mercy Papers," by Robin Romm
New York Times Book Review January 4, 2009
Notes
From Underground
on "From A to X," by John Berger
New York Times Book Review November 2, 2008
Season
of Grief
on "Goldengrove," by Francine Prose
New York Times Book Review September 21, 2008
That
Summer in Maine
on "Cost," by Roxanna Robinson
New York Times Book Review June 22, 2008
What
to Watch
on "The Necesssity of Theater," by Paul Woodruff
New York Times Book Review June 1, 2008
Boxing
Day
on "Joseph Cornell," by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
New York Times Book Review January 13, 2008
Art
by Writers
on "The Writer's Brush," by Donald Friedman
New York Times Book Review December 2, 2007
Absent
Mothers
on "Run," by Ann Patchett
New York Times Book Review September 30, 2007
Some
Kind of Sign
on "Talking Hands," by Margalit Fox
New York Times Book Review April 19, 2007
Signs
of Revolution
The New York Times October 31, 2006
Faith
Based
on "My Fundamentalist Education," by Christine Rosen
New York Times Book Review February 6, 2006
Deafness
as Metaphor, Not Gimmick
The New York Times August 23, 2003
Joy.
Frustration. Motherhood.
The New York Times September 7, 1998
Babies
At Risk
The New York Times May 7, 1997
Means
Streets
on "Fist Stick Knife Gun," by Geoffrey Canada
New York Times Book Review June 18, 1995
Schools
for All, or Separate But Equal? An Interpreter Isn't Enough
The New York Times February 22, 1994
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