Books
The Man from Beyond (W. W. Norton) 2005--a novel, September
2005
Also published in Dutch as De man van verre (Athos) 2006
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W (Norton)
2002--a collection of
short stories
Also available in a Norton paperback edition (2003); a British
paperback (2003), a French edition, L’Etrange Histoire de Benjamin
Button, 2e Etage Gauche (Seuil) 2003, and a Dutch edition, Het
curieuze verhall van Benjamin Button, Apt. 3w (Ambo/Anthos)
2003
Stories
“The Man with the Movie Camera,” in Film Comment, December
2003
“Bachelor Party,” in Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge,
Paul Zakrzewski,
ed. (HarperCollins) 2003
“The Inventor of Love,” in The Literary Review, summer, 2001
“Musee des Beaux Arts,” in The Hawai’i Review, fall, 2000
“Wakefield, 7E,” in Zoetrope: All Story, summer 2000
“Party Animal,” in The Northwest Review, summer 2000
Essays, Reviews and Criticism
“Fight or Flight,” in The Village Voice, Sept 29-Oct 5, 2004--a
review of Philip
Roth’s novel, The Plot Against America
“Meister Singer,” in The Village Voice, July 7-13, 2004--a
review of the American
Library’s three-volume collected stories of Isaac Bashevis
Singer
“American Idle,” in The Village Voice, May 19-25, 2004--a review
of Andrei
Codrescu’s novel, Wakefield
Introduction to Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady (Barnes
and Noble’s Classics)
2004
“Gender Blender,” on Nerve.com, September 6, 2002--a review of
Jeffrey
Eugenides’s novel, Middlesex
“Ben Okri,” in British Writers, Supplement V, George
Stade, ed. (Scribner’s)
1999--a 12,000-word critical essay reviewing the author’s work
“Imagining the Millenium, Complete with the Messiah,” in The
Boston Globe, April
18, 1999—a review of Melvin Jules Bukiet’s novel, Signs and
Wonders
“Another Kind of Death in Venice, and Recollections of a Life,”
in The Boston
Globe, August 30 1999--a review of Louis Begley’s novel, Mistler’s
Exit
“His Lover, His Country, and Himself,” in The Boston Globe,
December 28, 1997
--a review of Robert Olen Butler’s novel, The Deep Green Sea
“A Japanese Cinderella,” in The New Leader, November 3-17,
1997--a review of
Arthur Golden’s novel Confessions of a Geisha
“Kazuo Ishiguro,” in British Writers, Supplement IV
(Scrbner’s) 1997--a 12,000
word critical essay reviewing the author’s work
“A Sure and Sly Virtuouso,” in The New Leader, July 14-28, 1997--a
review of
Alan Isler’s collection of stories, The Bacon Fancier
“Classroom Booksploitation,” in The New Leader, May 5, 1997--a
discussion of
recent anthologies for introductory writing courses