You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

An essay on Alva Noë’s Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness published in Religion Dispatches.

The Felt Life in HD

A review of The Best Technology Writing 2009 by Yale University Press published in the New Haven Advocate.

Master Class Dismissed

A review of Tad Friend’s memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor published in the New Haven Advocate.

Drawn to the Beat of a Generation

A review of The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar published in The Forward.

Whither the music mag?

An essay published in The Curator.

Feature on The Marriage-Go-Round

An interview with Andrew Cherlin, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in American Today, published in the Baltimore City Paper.

The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious, reviewed

A review of Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s new book published in the May/June issue of Search magazine.

Brooklyn, reviewed

A review of Colm Colm Tóibín’s quiet and unsentimental new novel, Brooklyn, published in the New Haven Advocate.

Denis Johnson’s Nobody Move, reviewed

A review of Nobody Move, Denis Johnson’s hard-bitten, hard-boiled crime caper, for the Pittsburgh City Paper.

Michael Blumenthal’s And, reviewed

A review of a wonderful volume of poetry simply titled And by Michael Blumenthal (BOA Editions). I’m fortunate to have reviewed it for the venerable Forward. Thanks to DF for the opportunity.