Fiction
Coywolf Tikkun Magazine
Not for Nothing J Journal: New Writing on Justice
Tenancy Litbreak Magazine
This Truck is Bound for Glory Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Living Fossil Mondays Are Murder (Akashic Books)
Harvitz, As To War excerpt Jewish Fiction
Writing about Books
Nothing New Under the Sun: The Russian Formalists’ Guide to Prose Craft (with Joshua Keller) The Rumpus
Stories We Love: “My First Fee,” by Isaac Babel Fiction Writers Review
Ben Nadler's Library The Quivering Pen
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Notes on the Use of Dreams in Fiction The Tishman Review
Ordinary People and Ordinary Stories (Andrew Worthington Interview) The Philadelphia Review of Books
The Time Is So Little, The Time Belongs To Us (review of Hard Art DC 1979 by Lucian Perkins) The Philadelphia Review of Books
The Last Book I Loved: The Street The Rumpus
Academic Writing (These are also about books.)
“We Ain’t a Christian Outfit”: Protestantism and Secularism in the Formation of the Popular Western Novel, Western American Literature (access via JSTOR)
"The Root Is the Dream”: Dreaming, Storytelling, and Political Action in Two of Le Guin’s Vietnam War Era Novels The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence (access via Philosophy Documentation Center)
Other Articles (History, Culture, Social Movements)
(Note: Several of these articles are co-written with Oksana Mironova)
Third Red Scare, Same as the First (with Oksana) Protean Magazine
Looking for a Lineage in the Lusk Archive (with Oksana) Jewish Currents
A General Truth through a Particular Lie: An Interview with the Creators of the Podcast Penknife The Rumpus
Russia’s Anti-War Protesters Are Facing Unprecedented Repression (withOksana) Jewish Currents
Down in Dyess: Johnny Cash’s New Deal Roots Contingent Magazine
Where Do Flags Come From? The Atlantic / Object Lessons
The Fearless Black Cowboy of the Wild, Wild West Narratively
Under Annihilation’s Sign: Public Memory and Prospect Park’s Battle Pass (with Oskana) The Architectural League's Urban Omnibus
Pierless (with Oksana) BKLYNR
Personal Essays (Most of these are actually about books too.)
The Heavens Opened: Notes on Seeing Angels, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture
Immigration Acts Entropy
A Visit to My Rebbe's Grave Jewish Literary Journal
Hail & Farewell Human Parts
Newt The Rare Book Man Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
My Novel Could Be Your Life The Philadelphia Review of Books
Research Notes Necessary Fiction
The Writer's Arms Fried Chicken and Coffee
You can also find some of my other writing from over the years in print only publications such as:
Glimmer Train Stories, Thuglit, Pravic, The Fairy Tale Review, and Harpur Palate.