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My teeny NYT Magazine columns, collected here 5 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
Click to view slideshow. I’ve been meaning to create a slideshow of my New York Times Magazine columnlets, for my own archival purposes more than anything, and I’ve finally done it. They appear in th...
My profile of Joan Didion for Humanities 21 Jul 2013 | 01:15 am
Anyone who’s stopped by this site over the years probably knows that I revere Joan Didion. I had the great honor of interviewing her for Humanities Magazine in the lead-up to her receipt of the Nation...
Sunday reading, a day early 21 Jul 2013 | 12:45 am
My New York Times Magazine columnlet this week is about Chris Offutt’s attempts to bake a “Bible Cake” recipe (first published in a Kentucky P.T.A. cookbook in 1967) without cursing. Just about every...
It got better 26 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
My father used to theorize, proudly, that Bowers v. Hardwick was based partly on reasoning from some law review note he wrote. The details are hazy in my memory, and the claim was always speculative, ...
Summertime salutations 12 Jun 2013 | 06:11 am
I sometimes miss writing here, on this website. It seems so old-fashioned to me now, a tiny Internet island disconnected from everything else. I remember first starting to type in this little box, or ...
Stuff from me, in the mail 15 May 2013 | 10:29 pm
Putting together packages for Quarterly Co. has been a lot of fun and a lot of work. I’m excited to be ironing out the details for for my very last one right now. The most recent shipment included Col...
Tinkering 9 Apr 2013 | 07:55 am
We’re moving things around here, and the look of the site is in flux for the moment. We’ll get it all sorted out soon.
On the rise of the “Christian bar mitzvah” 8 Apr 2013 | 10:09 am
For the New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the increasing popularity of traditional Jewish rituals among American evangelical Christians — including, in a small but growing sector, “bar mitzvahs...
On Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers 7 Apr 2013 | 10:39 pm
For NPR, I review Rachel Kushner’s brilliant lightning bolt of a novel, The Flamethrowers, which straddles two revolutions: the squatter-artist colonization of Manhattan’s SoHo in the 1970s, and the r...
Letter from Jerusalem 13 Feb 2013 | 01:25 pm
It’s impossible to choose a favorite thing in Jerusalem so far, but right now I believe it may be the Bulgarian feta with hyssop and sun-dried tomatoes that’s laid out every morning with the rest of o...
