“No Small Parts,“ Raritan, Spring 2021
On Salka Viertel and the Los Angeles émigrés
“The L-Word,” The Nation, September 14-21, 2015
On Olivia Manning, Jacqueline Kahanoff, and the idea of the Levant
“Salaam Cinema,” The Nation, October 7, 2013
On Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Jerusalem
“Imagining the Real,” Raritan, Spring 2012
“In Search of Yitzhaq Shami,” Raritan, Winter 2009
“What Lies Beneath,” The Nation, July 30, 2008
On the politics of archaeology in Jerusalem
“Lives on the Ground,” The Nation, February 18, 2008
On Palestinian and Israeli memoirs
“Recollecting the Palestinian Past,”Raritan, Autumn 2006
On Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun
Letter from Jerusalem, The Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2005/06
On British and Israeli archives
Letter from Jerusalem, The Jewish Quarterly, Autumn, 2004
On S. Y. Agnon and Jerusalem libraries
Selected film and book reviews, The American Prospect, 2000-2002
“The Face of Spain and South from Granada,” Tin House, Fall 2000
On Gerald Brenan