Writing by Format: Book Review
- “‘Inexplicable, Terrible, and Capricious'” (review of Jonathan Lamb’s cultural history of scurvy) (Slate Book Review, December 8, 2016)
- “Curiosity in the Face of Immensity” (review of David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work Now) (Slate Book Review, October 4, 2016)
- “Our Panics, Our Selves” (review of Richard Beck’s book We Believe the Children) (The Boston Review online, September 23, 2015)
- “Driving Off Into the Sunset” (review of Oliver Wang’s Legions of Boom and the Fast and Furious franchise) (Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015)
- “The Most Beautiful and Intelligent Historical Coffee-Table Books of 2014” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2014)
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Outtakes” (Virginia Quarterly Review online, December 5, 2014)
- “What Did Gettysburg Smell Like? A Sensory History of the Civil War” (Slate, November 24, 2014)
- “On Letters of Note: The Internet’s Idea of History” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014)
- “When Smartphones Attack” (review of Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange) (Slate Book Review, April 9, 2013)
- “The Way of the Egghead Is Hard” (review of Aaron Lecklider’s Inventing the Egghead) (Slate Book Review, April 5, 2013)
- Review of Ginger Strand’s Killer on the Road (Austin-American Statesman, June 16, 2012)
- “Young and Hot: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries” (Songbirds and Satellites, September 6, 2011)
- “The Future Is Not Going To Be Like The Past: Mark Hertsgaard’s Hot: Living Through The Next Fifty Years On Earth” (Songbirds and Satellites, February 25, 2011)
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