Other Writing

“The Particular Ways That Being Rich Screws You up.”
The Atlantic
July 9, 2024

“It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.”
The New York Times
Feb., 20, 2024

“A First-Rate Girl: The Problem of Female Beauty.”
The New Yorker Online
Oct. 2, 2013

“The Man Who Made the Novel.”
The New Yorker
May 16, 2016 issue

“Jay McInerney’s Middle-Age Malaise.”
The New Yorker
Aug. 9th, 2016 issue

“The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels.”
The New Yorker Online
January 15, 2016

“An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors.”
The New Yorker Online
Dec. 2, 2014

“Richardson, Fielding, and (a Partial) Defense of Angry Young Men.”
The Millions
June 26, 2013

“Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels. But His True Subject Was Human Weakness.”
The New York Times Book Review
May 17, 2019

“Jane Austen.”
Slate
April 5, 2013

“Wander Woman.”
Bookforum
Sept./Oct./Nov. 2018 issue

“Blaming the ‘Burbs.”
The New Republic Online
December 22, 2008

“Intern or Die.”
The New Republic Online
June 26, 2008

“The Assimilation Artist.”
The New Republic Online
April 2, 2008

“A Punk Rocker Searches for his Bass. And the Friend Who Stole it.”
The New York Times Book Review
Dec. 1, 2022

“Welcome to Another Novel Set in Brooklyn. This One is Different.”
The New York Times Book Review
Aug. 3, 2020

“In this Novel, a Secret Society is Keeping Some Very Dark Secrets.”
The New York Times Book Review
April 16, 2019

“A Blue-Collar Specialist Takes a Turn at Well-Off Professionals.”
The New York Times Book Review
June 9, 2017

“Lost in Their Own Lives.”
The New York Times Book Review
Sept. 18, 2014