Essays
Alaskan Wilderness Adventure Travel + Leisure (2024)
Perfection The Paris Review (2020)
Loss The Yale Review (2020)
Oceans The Paris Review (2019)
First Person (excerpt from 300 Arguments) The Paris Review (2017)
The Grand Shattering Harper’s (2015)
Mostly True T Magazine (2015)
Keeping Time (excerpt from Ongoingness) Harper’s (2014)
Motherhood (excerpt from Ongoingness) Harper’s (2013)
You’ll Love Her! She’s Crazy! The New Yorker (2013)
First Person (excerpt from The Guardians) The Paris Review (2012)
The Cure (excerpt from The Two Kinds of Decay) The New York Times Magazine (2008)
Poison (excerpt from The Two Kinds of Decay) The Believer (2008)
Squibs
Steal My Bookshelf The Strategist (2022)
Quickness Frieze (2020)
Cozy Mysteries The New York Review of Books (2020)
Pandemic Journal The New York Review of Books (2020)
What Should a Writer Keep? The New York Times Book Review (2017)
Lessons of Constraint: Book List Library of America (2017)
Acupuncture The New York Times Magazine (2016)
Choir The New York Times Magazine (2016)
Green-Eyed Verbs The New York Times Book Review (2016)
White Hair, Don't Care T Magazine (2016)
How to Have a Career Medium (2013)
Crypto-Autobiographies: Book Bag The Daily Beast (2013)
Writing About Not Writing: Book List Bookforum (2009)
Things I Realized in 2002 McSweeney’s (2003)
Nineteen Boys McSweeney’s (2001)
Criticism
Emily Maloney The New York Times Book Review (2022)
Darcey Steinke The New Yorker (2019)
Vija Celmins Frieze (2019)
Karl Ove Knausgaard The New York Times Book Review (2018)
Jules Renard The New Yorker (2017)
36 Ways of Looking at the Aphorism Harper’s (2016)
Rebecca Solnit + Charles Fernyhough Harper’s (2014)
Paul Auster The New York Times Book Review (2013)
Julian Barnes The New York Times Book Review (2013)
Emily Rapp The New York Times Book Review (2013)
Paul Guest The New York Review of Books (2011)
Jack Gilbert The Poetry Foundation (2006)
Poems
Poem for a Man I Thought I’d Never See Again The Sewanee Review (2020)
The Bear The Paris Review (2016)
Est, Est, Est Siste Viator (2006)
Asking for More Explosive (2005)
A Glittering Blackbird (2005)
This Might Be Real Kulture Vulture (2005)
Hell Conduit (2004)
Love Letter (Clouds) Western Humanities Review (2002)
What We Miss The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002)
The Rider American Letters + Commentary (2000)
Collaborations
Writing Postpartum: Conversation with Kate Zambreno The Paris Review (2019)
Re-Formation: Libretto Choral Symphony by Sebastian Currier (2017)
The F-Word: Conversation with Eula Biss + Maggie Nelson Gulf Coast (2015)
Sleepers and Dreamers: Libretto Music for Chorus and Orchestra by Sebastian Currier (2012)
Deep-Sky Objects: Libretto Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra by Sebastian Currier (2012)
Woman Writer + Writer Mother: Conversation with Rachel Zucker Candor (2009)
Interview with Lydia Davis The Believer (2008)
Interview with Amy Hempel The Believer (2007)