INTERVIEWS

• “Connoisseurs of Foolishness,” An Interview with Thomas McGuane, Dublin Review of Books
• “The Ongoing Promise,” An Interview with Richard Ford, Dublin Review of Books
• “Keepable Sentences,” An Interview with Kent Haruf, Dublin Review of Books

ESSAYS

• “Westward Dreams,” Cormac McCarthy’s Dark Vision, Dublin Review of Books
• “I Gave Them a Sword,” Richard Nixon and Watergate, Dublin Review of Books
• “Virtue Unrewarded,” Jonathan Franzen’s Tragic Realism, Dublin Review of Books
• “The Sly Masquerade,” Philip Roth’s Life and Work, Dublin Review of Books
• “A Difficult Healing,” The 2020 US presidential election, Dublin Review of Books
• “An Ordinary Evil,” Josef Mengele and the Horrors of Auschwitz, Dublin Review of Books
• “The Necessary Details,” Robert Caro and Lyndon Johnson, Dublin Review of Books
• “Seeking the Tingle of True Art,” Writing about Music, the Irish Times
• “Ireland and the US: A Double Life,” Living across Two Cultures, the Irish Times
• “The Snug, Opaque Quotidian,” John Updike’s Life and Art, Dublin Review of Books
• “Ace in the Hole,” Montana, Russia, and Nuclear Warheads, the Irish Times
• “The Great Ethiopian Run,” 10K in Addis Ababa, the Irish Times
• “I Feel a Draught,” The Music of Lester Young, the Journal of Music in Ireland
• “U2 and Kind of Blue,” or “How Long Does It Take to record an Album?” the Irish Times
• “The Need to Disguise,” The Mysteries of Alice Munro, Dublin Review of Books
• “Waiting ‘Round to Die,” Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt, the Irish Times
• “Everything He Hated,” Philip Roth’s Rage, Dublin Review of Books
• “Independence Day,” In Defense of Harry Truman, the Irish Times
• “Wise Guy,” Celebrating Saul Bellow’s Fiction, Dublin Review of Books
• “Heaven and Earth,” The Music of Ethiopia, the Journal of Music in Ireland
• “Are You Experienced?” Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix, the Irish Times
• “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” Wallace Stevens’s Sweet Tooth, the Irish Times
• “The Last Thing She Wanted,” Joan Didion’s Explorations of Grief, Dublin Review of Books

REVIEWS

• “Once More with Feeling,” The Cork Jazz Festival, for the Irish Times
• “Bark,” by Lorrie Moore, for Dublin Review of Books
• “The Blue Moment,” by Richard Williams, for the Irish Times
• “All That Is,” by James Salter, for Dublin Review of Books
• “The Ellington Century,” by David Schiff, for Dublin Review of Books