Other Writing
Recent
The Novel as Extended Op-Ed.
An Affair to Remember–Except It Never Actually Happened.
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel.
In Praise of Jane Austen's Least Beloved Novel.
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap.
The Particular Ways That Being Rich Screws You up.
It's Not Just Wages. Retailers are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.
Selected Essays & Criticism
A First-Rate Girl: The Problem of Female Beauty.
The Man Who Made the Novel.
Jay McInerney's Middle-Age Malaise.
The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels.
An Answer to the Novel's Detractors.
Richardson, Fielding, and (a Partial) Defense of Angry Young Men.
Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels. But His True Subject Was Human Weakness.
Jane Austen.
Wander Woman.