Middling, a craft essay, Fourth Genre, December 17, 2023.
“Differences: Sex, Separateness, and Marriage,” Salmagundi, 2013, included in “The Contemporary American Essay” (Pantheon, 2021).
Busted! Citron Review, March 2022.
The Artist Malevich Takes A Walk in Vitebsk, LARB, 2018.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at ‘Black Square’ LARB, 2019.
Listening to the Provinces: A Painter’s Letters Home Yale Review, 2019.
“Marc Chagall and the People’s Art School in Vitebsk Reunion Tablet, 2018.
“Cringing About Culture: The City Looks at the Provinces,” Salmagundi, 2008.
“Thucydides and the Powell Doctrine,” Raritan, 2004, featured in “NB” column in The Times Literary Supplement.
“Better Practices in Mourning,” Southwest Review, 2009, Notable in Best American Essays.
“Table V. Chair,” Hotel Amerika, Fall/Winter 2014.
“Not Against Irony,” Hotel Amerika, 2012.
“Venn and the Art of Writing Instruction,” UW blog, 2018.
“On Hearing Hans Joas Lecture About the Soul,” New Letters, Winter 2012.
When I Couldn’t Look at Myself in the Mirror, My Friend Looked For Me, an illustrated essay: my words and Carol Troen’s portraits. The Normal School, May 4, 2022.
INTERVIEW
With Phillip Lopate, BOMB, 124/Summer 2013, pp. 104-110.
DISSERTATION
“Provincialism, Metropolitanism and the Politics of Space: Malevich in Vitebsk,” for fulfillment of requirements for Ph.D. from Program in Composition/Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 2006.
ARTICLES
“I flew via the letters: Malevich Enters Vitebsk,” in Russia: The Imagined Space, the Spatial Imagination in Russia, ed. Mark Bassin. 2009. In Russian.
"Authenticity and Eclecticism: Chagall and Pen View Vitebsk," in Art and Geography, ed. Olga Lavrenova. In Russian.
“Death, Strudel, and Other Major Mysteries,” The Forward (New York), July 27, 2001.
“Gift to the Jews: Beauty Writer Extols the Virtues of Frizz,” The Forward (New York), March 9, 2001.
“Gazing Into an Irresistible Mirror,” Books & Religion (New York), Summer 1991, pp. 9-11.
“Square and Groovy Gods Made Flesh,” Books & Religion (New York), Fall 1990, pp. 5-6.
“Childhood Landscapes: Ronit Lentin in conversation with Shifra Sharlin,” Jewish Quarterly (London), Summer 1990, pp. 48-51.
“Bearing Witness,” Jewish Quarterly (London), Autumn 1990, pp. 60-61.
“The Inventor’s I: A review of Philip Roth’s The Counterlife ,” Jewish Quarterly (London), Winter 1988, pp. 44-45.
“Bernice Rubens, a novelist of family life,” Jewish Quarterly (London), Autumn 1987, pp. 28-31
FICTION
“Labyrinth,” Generations (Australia), April 1997, pp. 70-73.
“Shoemaker’s Apprentice,” Jewish Currents (New York), November 1994, pp. 26-29. Pushcart Prize Nominee.
“Old-New Land,” Jewish Quarterly (London), Spring 1990.