- “The Secrets of the Master,” on novels starring Henry James, Henry James Review, Spring 2008
- “A Place in Mind,” Northern Woodlands, Summer 2002
- on J. R. R. Tolkien, New York Times, January 2002
- “The Chanterelle Crusades,” Northern Woodlands, Summer 2001
- "Dr. McElroy, Homeopathist" in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Winter, 1990
- "Stanley Elkin Revisited" New England Review, 2006