“Inkside Out:Visual Artists are Incoroporating Tattoo Imagery and Techniques into Their Art,” ARTnews, December 2012.

“Remembering Obama at Occidental” (personal essay/slideshow), The New Yorker, October 3, 2012.

“More on “‘So,’” The Chronicle of Higher Education (guest blog for Lingua Franca), December 19, 2011

“The Scarlet V,” Proto Magazine (fall 2010).  An essay about the beauty of an ugly scar.

“Life Stories Unlocked by Literature,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 25, 2009).  For some college students, public university isn’t merely a matter of self-improvement; it’s a means of survival.   life-stories1

“Intimate Lines,” On the Issues (May 7, 2009). Li’l Wayne: preteen sex educator.

“The Occidental Tourist” (Op Ed), from “The Places He Remembers: Postcards from Barack Obama’s Life,” The New York Times (January 18, 2009).

“A Blank Human Canvas: The Literary Tattoo Leaps from the Page to Living Parchment,” The Believer (Dec/Jan 2005-6).

“‘Shrek’ is not Shrek,” Salon.com (May 24, 2001).

“Who Are You Calling Ms.? Why Women Have Suddenly Rejected the Politically Charged Courtesy Title,” Salon.com (July 27, 2000).

Wake up, Sleeping Beauty!” Salon.com (August 20, 1999). Classic fairy tales get a feminist makeover for parents who don’t like their princesses trickout, locked up, or comatose.

 

Selected Book Reviews
“Body Language” (review of Body Type 2:More TypographicTattoos by Ina Saltz), The Las Vegas Weekly (April 14, 2010).

“Mockingbird Sings” (review of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields), Salon.com (June 6, 2006).

“The Real Calamity Jane” (review of Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird), Salon.com (Dec. 6, 2005).

“The Bride Stripped Bare” (review of Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity by Irene Gammel), Bookforum (fall 2002).

“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (review of Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver), The Village Voice Literary Supplement (July 17, 2001).

“Ghost Wings” by Barbara M. Joosse, The New York Times Book Review (October 21, 2001).

“Pretty in Ink, The Village Voice (October 17, 2000).