My Writing
I write about books, education, politics, culture, and other topics in publications like The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Salon, Cognoscenti, and Literary Mama, as well as my newsletter, Not Quite Sure.
I am a regular reviewer and essayist for the Boston Globe’s book section.
Some popular pieces I’ve written about other topics (I’ve been writing for a long time!):
Could the Strategies That Worked for Tobacco Also Work for Gun Control?
Cognoscenti
When the Time Comes: How to Visit the Dying
Cognoscenti
The Sublime, Terrible, and Not To Be Underestimated Kellyanne Conway
Cognoscenti
Sasha Obama, My Daughter, and the PARCC Test
The Washington Post
Smells Like Words
The Millions
The Apparently Bearable Unhappiness of Academe
Inside Higher Ed
Don’t Blame Ohio
Salon
My Life with Books
My book: Time, Space and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary
An interview with me in Secrets of the Book Critics
A compilation of my recent reviews in LitHub’s Book Marks
A family books column I wrote when my children were younger
My book, some books I'm in, some books I edited