robert p. baird in black and white

2008

+ "Spiel of Fortune," a review of Campbell McGrath's Seven Notebooks, in the summer issue of Bookforum

+ "Command Decisions: Crafting a Test for Presidential Candidates" in the April 21 Chicago Tribune

+ "Three Questions for Charles Simic" in the April issue of Chicago Magazine.

+ "A boost not only for Obama" (on the Kennedy endorsements) in the February 3 Chicago Tribune

2007

+ "Paradise Lost: Why Doesn't Anyone Read Dante's Paradiso?" at Slate

+ "Poetry Magazines & Women Poets" [PDF] (with Joshua Kotin) in Chicago Review 53:2/3

+ Review of Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing [PDF] in Chicago Review 53:2/3

+ Review of Peter Larkin's Leaves of Field [PDF] in Chicago Review 53:1

2006

÷ "The Seduction of Reasons" — Sightings column on Martin Amis's "The Age of Horrorism"

÷ Translations of Wu Ming's "In Like Flynn" [PDF] and "The Emperor's Three Hundred Woodcutters" [PDF] in Chicago Review 52:2/3/4

÷ Interview with Wu Ming [PDF] in Chicago Review 52:2/3/4

2005

÷ Review of Harry Thomas, ed. Montale in English [PDF] in Chicago Review 51:3

+ "The Fetishist" in Il mirtillo palustre 1.