• “The Cuban Connection”
  Conversation with Elizabeth Graver about our historical novels inspired by true stories of our grandmothers in Tablet Magazine.
• “Simple Past Present Perfect”
  Short story for The Massachusetts Review about 9/11, Israel and Palestine, immigration, and mothers and sons.
• “Sweetness Mattered”
  Creative non-fiction piece for Tin House about a #metoo story with an inspiring twist.
• “My Grandmother, the Undocumented Immigrant”
  Creative non-fiction piece combining memoir and travel writing in Tablet Magazine.
• “Guiltless Pleasures” (PDF)
  Short story about the food entrainment business and the search for meaning, in Crazyhorse.
• “On Jacob Dinezon’s Memories and Scenes”
  Literary essay about why some writers make it in translation and others don’t, in Tin House.
• “Edward Albee Was My Mailman”
  Literary tribute and personal remembrance of the master playwright in The Millions.
• Review of Garth Greenwell’s novel What Belongs to You in The New York Times Book Review
• “How Food Writing Fed My Fiction”
  Literary and personal essay on the unexpected connection of food writing and literary fiction in Poets & Writers