Selected Essays and Articles
“Olive Oatman: White Mohave,” Native Peoples (Jan/Feb 2010). Native Peoples

“Ten Myths About Olive Oatman,” True West (August 2009).

“Life Stories Unlocked by Literature,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 25, 2009). life-stories1

“Teaching Daughters about Lollipop Politics,” Feministing.com (May 7, 2009).

“The Occidental Tourist” (Op Ed), The New York Times (January 18, 2009).

“Tattoo and Scarification,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008).

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

“Online Art Stroll,” Real Simple (September 2005).

“‘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)

Selected Book Reviews

“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).