Public Writing

  • 2006

    “Uprooted Words on a Bookshelf in Chernivtsi” — PMLA 121.4.
    “What Can a Journal Essay Do?” — PMLA 121.3.
    “The First Blow: Torture and Close Reading” — PMLA 121.2.

    2005

    “What’s Wrong with These Terms? A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Diana Taylor” — PMLA 120.4.
    “In Medias Res” — PMLA 120.2.

    2004

    “Collateral Damage” — PMLA 119.5.
    “On the Way to the Forum” — PMLA 119.1.

  • 2020

    “Holocaust Testimony Beyond the Frame” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 23, 2020.

    “Women’s Ways of Aging” review essay on Gail Collins, No Stopping Us Now, and Susan J. Douglas, In Our Prime. Public Books, June 16, 2020.

    2017

    Review / reflection on Suelo performance by María José Contreras, Santiago, Chile. Public Books, 2017.

    Review of Alex Zwerdling, The Rise of the Memoir Biography 40.2 (2017).

    2014

    “Sweet Rage” review of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then. Public Books, February 1, 2014.

    “The Sounds of Silencing in U.S. Academia” Chronicle Review, February 2014.

    2013

    Review of Anne Frank Unbound ed. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler. Women’s Review of Books, 2013.

    2003

    Review of Anne Raeff, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia Women’s Review of Books, April 2003.

    1996

    “Sites of Memory: Interviewing Holocaust Survivors in Bolivia” with Leo Spitzer, Newsletter of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Survivors Testimony, Yale University, 1996.

    “Beyond Gender and Genre” review of Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development. Novel, 1996.

    1991

    Review of Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, The Crown of Columbus Women’s Review of Books, October 1991.

    1990

    Review essay on Marguerite Duras Women’s Review of Books, October 1990.

    1988

    Review of Mary Helen Washington, Invented Lives Ms. Magazine, January 1988.

    1986

    “Father Owns the Words” review of Hélène Cixous, Inside. The New York Times Book Review, December 7, 1986.

    1981

    “Butor’s Mythic Quest” review of Dean McWilliams, The Narratives of Michel Butor: The Writer as Janus. Novel 14.3 (1981): 282–284.

  • 2024

    “Rethinking Holocaust Memory after October 7” Public Books, July 15, 2024.

    2020

    “Women’s Ways of Aging”
    Public Books, June 16, 2020.

    “Photography in the Age of Social Distance” ConTactos / Tome Press, June 2020.

    2017

    “We Can’t Turn Our Backs on ‘Stateless’ Youth” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 30, 2017.

    “Three Lessons About Autocracy I Learned as a Child in Communist Romania” Truthout, March 9, 2017.

    2016

    “The Art of Protest” Public Books, November 14, 2016.

    2002

    “The Day Time Stopped” The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 2002; reprinted in Brown Alumni Magazine, March 2002.