2008

+ “Spiel of Fortune,” a review of Camp­bell McGrath’s Seven Note­books, in the summer issue of Book­fo­rum. See my follow-​up exchange with McGrath here.

+ “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" (See the orig­i­nal uncut ver­sion here.)

÷ 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.