Selected Writing
Review of Hollywood Bohemians by Brett L. Abrams, Journal of the History of Sexuality (2012)
Sanford Versus Steinberg: Black Sitcoms, Jewish Writers, and the 1970s Ethnic Revival, Transition (2011)
Rethinking Crowd Violence: Self-Categorization and the Woodstock 1999 Riot, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, (2004), 34:2
Party Animal: The enigmatic "Jew fairy" at the center of The Boys in the Band, Nextbook, December 12, 2008
Mmmm…brains: Night of the Living Jews is not just another Hasidic zombie movie, Nextbook, October 10, 2007
Suburban Cowboy: What happens when a Wyatt Earp wannabe goes astray in the Valley, Nextbook, June 13, 2006
Mixed Metaphors: Transamerica's heroine finds herself negotiating a number of identities, Nextbook, March 2, 2006
Character Flaw: Fagin's dearest companions have been villains and thieves. This time Roman Polanski makes him a victim. Nextbook, September 23, 2005
Suburban Picareseque: Zach Braff traces a jagged line from New Jersey to Harold and Maude, Nextbook, September 2, 2004
You, Too, Can Make It Work: Teaching Tips from Tim Gunn, Mentor on Project Runway, New York Times, Education Life, February 1, 2013
Creature Presentation: The Golem migrates from Prague to Springfield, Nextbook, November 3, 2006
Riding Shotgun: Why does Deadwood's sheriff wear a star with six points? Nextbook, May 18, 2005
Survivor Challenge: Ten years after Jerry Seinfeld got caught necking during Schindler's List, reverence for the Holocaust still makes Larry David squirm, Nextbook, March, 26, 2004
Cultural Evolution: What exactly is "post-Jewish" art?, Nextbook, July 2, 2008
Profile of photographer Tommy Mintz, 6@30 exhibition catalogue, March 2007
American Mystic: Hyman Bloom rose to fame, and fell into obscurity, with his eerie paintings of rabbis, ghosts, and demons, Nextbook, February 28, 2007
Open Panel: Will Corwin's assimilating art, Nextbook, February 7, 2006
The Middle-American Way of Death: A lesson Mitch Albom never learned from Morrie, Nextbook, October 17, 2006
Free Radical: Baruch Spinoza inspired Rebecca Goldstein. So why is she out to betray him? Nextbook, May 15, 2006
Competitive Eating: Reviews of Horsemen of the Esophagus and Eat This Book, Newsday, May 7, 2006
Identity Politics: In David Levithan's latest young adult novel, president-elect Abraham Stein—and his husband—encounter trouble on the way to the White House, Nextbook, September 13, 2006
Bookends: Bar Mitzvahs: Reviews of Thirteen and a Day and Bar Mitzvah Disco, Newsday, November 5, 2005
Foreign Affairs: Aaron Hamburger's Americans abroad are not so innocent, Nextbook, October 10, 2005
Let's Get Lost: Rebecca Solnit wanders and ponders landscapes haunted by Walter Benjamin and Leopold Bloom, Nextbook, August 18, 2005
Summer Reading: Hear recommendations from Tony Kushner, Myla Goldberg, Gary Shteyngart, and others, Nextbook, May 4, 2005
The F Word:Today's special: Diet-guru crash course—with a side of celeb-chef comfort food, The Village Voice, Jan 27, 2004
Crossover Stars: The flamboyant pioneers of New York's Yiddish theater crossed continents, genders, and coasts, Nextbook, April 20, 2007
Off-Broadway Transference: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and the woman who brought them together, Nextbook, February 23, 2005
Kafka Curve: Think Gregor Samsa had it rough? He never had to wait in line at Carnegie Hall, Nextbook, January 13, 2005
Slights Unseen: A dozen years ago, critics saw Donald Margulies bring a Philip Roth character to the stage. Some scenes have aged better than others, Nextbook, June 17, 2004
Taking Dylan at His Word, Leaving the Rest, New York Sun, January 24, 2007
A Different March: Sufjan Stevens makes a record his own way, Nextbook, July 12, 2006
FASHION, LIFE, ETC.
What Would Jesus Say?, The Jewish Week, May 4, 2007
Man of the Cloth:American Apparel's new spin on the "shmata business," Nextbook, July 18, 2005
Winter Camp:Five days, 2,000 participants, and countless pints of Guinness in the English countryside: An American reports from Limmud, Nextbook, January 4, 2005
Competitive Eating Books Reviewed
Bar Mitzvah books reviewed