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.

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

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.

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

An essay published in The Curator.

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.

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

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

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

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.