Here you can read a sampling of some of recent and notable pieces. She also has contributed entries to The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English (ed Lorna Sage); The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors (ed Laura Miller and Adam Begley); and Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World (ed Lucy Daniel). She has also written occasional pieces on family life, including a piece on being a stepmother, included below.

• Review: Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorklee
  The New York Times, August 5, 2020
• A Proust of One’s Own: Anthony Powell’s 20th Century
  Los Angeles Review of Books, November 22, 2018
  
• Reviews: White Houses by Amy Bloom, Undiscovered Country Kelly O’Connor McNees
  The New York Times, May 15, 2018
• How much do your kids really need to know about your sex life?
  The Guardian, July 1, 2017
• The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan review – an epic journey into the deep south
  The Guardian, April 19, 2017
• The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang review – a richly entertaining debut
  The Guardian, November 18, 2016
• “The Good Life” by Marian Thurm
  New York Times, May 6, 2016
• ‘All That Man Is,’ by David Szalay
  The San Francisco Chronicle, November 27, 2016
• Hermione Lee: A Profile
  Narrative magazine, Fall 2014
• “Accident Prone” (Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken)
  New York Times, June 8, 2014
• Book review: Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
  Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2011
• Of Pulse by Julian Barnes
  San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2011
• Ireland is still the heart and soul of Edna O’Brien’s work”(Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien)
  The Guardian, March 5, 2011
• Misery Loves Company (The Old Romantic by Louise Dean)
  The New York Times, February 18, 2011
• Of The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon
  San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2011
• The Widow in Winter (February by Lisa Moore)
  The New York Times, February 16, 2010
• The Pianist (Appassionata by Eva Hoffman)
  The New York Times, June 24, 2009
• Everyone Has Called in Sick (A Better Angel: Stories by Chris Adrian)
  The New York Times, September 26, 2008
• What Used to Be (The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt)
  The New York Times, April 6, 2008
• Infinite Jest (Darkmans by Nicola Barker)
  The New York Times, January 13, 2008
• Ground Zero (A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus)
  The New York Times, September 10, 2006
• Witness for the Prosecution (The Essential Gore Vidal edited by Fred Kaplan)
  Times Literary Supplement, April 30, 1999
• Cut to the Chaste (On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan)
  Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 3, 2007
• Emotional Geography (Jigsaw: an unsentimental education and A Legacy by Sybille Bedford)
  The New Statesman, March 27, 2000
• Jay McInerney’s Spoilt New York Lives: Guilt, Desire and Ambition (The Good Life by Jay McInerney).
  Times Literary Supplement, March 8, 2006.
• Your Ad Here (The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon).
  The New York Times, November 4, 2001.
• High Infidelity: An Interview with Hanif Kureishi.
  The Village Voice, April/May 1999.
• What is Truth? A Portrait of a Powerful, Driven, Womanizing Artist is Told, After His Death, by the Women in his Life (The Great Man: A Novel by Kate Christensen).
  Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 26, 2007.
• Geography is Destiny (The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke).
  The New York Times, July 15, 2001.
• How Did We Miss These? Part 2 (Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison).
  The Guardian, September 7, 2007.
• The Joys of Being a Stepmother.
  The Guardian, July 12, 2008.