Essays/Reviews

Encountering Seamus Heaney: A Memoir of the Poet and a Critical Appraisal of His Poetry of Violence” in The American Poetry Review

Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents” in The American Psychoanalyst

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew” in The Boston Review

“Books In Brief: Gilded City” in The New York Times

Biography of a Germ” in The New York Times

Books in Brief: LIES A Diary, 1986-1999. By Ned Rorem” in The New York Times

Disturbing Beauty: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang” on my blog

No Memory of Having Starred: The Case for the Poetry of Robert Frost” on my blog.

Zhang Huan: Altered States A “One-Man” Show at The Asia Society” on my blog.

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