Articles, Essays, Reviews

“Five Best Literary Portraits,” The Wall Street Journal

“An Artful Alliance,” Jewish Book Council

“The Patron Clients,” The American Scholar

Review of John Singer Sargent’s “Portraits of Artists and Friends” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Review of Books

Review of Michael Gorra’s “Portrait of a Novel”, New York Review of Books

Review of John Steele Gordon’s “A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable,” New York Review of Books

On Henry James’s late novel “The Outcry”, in New York Review of Books

“How to Give Away $21.8 Billion,” Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The New York Times Magazine

“J. Pierpont Morgan as Financier and Collector”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 57, no. 3

 “The Unknown J.P. Morgan,” New Yorker

“The Brilliant Bailout,” New Yorker

Making the Facts Obey,” review of Intellectual Memoirs, by Mary McCarthy. The New York Times Book Review

“In the Heart of the Heartland,” review of Tracks, by Louise Erdrich.  The New York Times Book Review 

“Heebiejeebieville Express,” review of Children of Light, by Robert Stone.  The New York Times Book Review,

“Updike in the Lion’s Den,” review of Bech is Back, by John Updike. Newsweek

“Black Magic.” Cover story on Toni Morrison. Newsweek