SELECTED NONBOOK WRITING

Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog review, The Guardian, 10/19/23

When Truth No Longer Counts, How Does a Memoirist Tell Her Story?, New York Times Book Review, 6/11/23

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is Exhausted, New York Times Book Review, 3/18/23

A Year in Reading, The Millions, 12/14/22

Belle, Sebastian and Me, The New York Times, 9/25/22

Alta’s Favorite Bookstores: Left Bank Books, Alta magazine, 6/27/22

Jami Attenberg’s Memoir Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Born Writer, New York Times Book Review, 1/11/22

Spheres of Influence, Alta magazine, 8/9/21

Women Refusing to Be Like Other Women, The Atlantic Monthly, 6/21

She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied, New York Times Book Review, 2/23/20

The Empathy of True Crime: Rachel Monroe discusses the radical empathy of true crime, Alta magazine, 2/11/20

“What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It?,” New York Times Book Review, 10/1/19

“To Escape Her Grief, and Work Through It, a Writer Starts Running,” New York Times Book Review, 4/12/19

“What I’d Like to Tell My New-Mom Self,” The Cut, 6/30/18

“Fire Sermon is a Profoundly Strange Meditation on Desire,” The Atlantic Monthly, 3/18

“Thank you notes to the things that got me through my forties,” The Pool, 2/2/18

“What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men,” The Paris Review, 11/20/17

“Modern Love: A Husband for Home, A Wife for Away,” The New York Times, 6/9/17

“We Need the Eggs,” City Arts, 5/25/17

“Eight Secrets about Sex from People I Know,” Literary Hub, 5/9/17

“How it feels to be a woman in America right now,” Stylist UK, 11/16

“The Opposite of Spoiled,” New York Times Book Review, 3/20/15

“Inconvenient Feelings,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 7/27/14

“As the World Turns,” New York Times Book Review, 6/6/14

“Why Is It So Hard for Women to Write about Sex?,” The Atlantic Monthly, 3/14

“Traveller’s Tale: On Hitchhiking in Australia,” The Wall Street Journal, 12/27/13

“Dispatches from the Campaign Trail,” Crosscut, 10/14/13

“Threatening Weather,” New York Times Book Review, 7/26/13

“The Fantastic Realist,” Slate, 9/14/11

“Her Great Depression,” Columbia Journalism Review, 1/20/11

“Why Americans Love Yoga,” Slate, 7/12/10

“Rod McKuen Appears in the Desert,” poetryfoundation.org, 3/28/07

“The Bankable Siren Call of the Misty Isles,” The New York Times, 5/13/2007

“She’s Gotta Have It,” The Nation, 10/6/03

“Small, Good Things,” New York Times Book Review, 1/21/01