Thomas Mann's Erotic Politics
Mann in Love. The New Yorker, March 11, 1996.
Stanley Kubrick Was My Friend, Too
Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker, August 2, 1999.
Lord Alfred Douglas
Strange Fruit. The New Yorker, July 24, 2000.
Hushing Makes Noise
Concert Rage. The New Yorker, March 26, 2001.
Wallace Stevens
Invisible Priest. Slate, Jan. 8, 1998.
Klaus Kinski
Auto-da-Fé. Slate, Jan. 24, 1997.
Orson Welles
A Dark Genius Haunts the Hollywood He Taunted. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1996.
Music News
Short Songs, Tall Tales, and O. J. in E-flat. New York Times, July 14, 1996.
The Forgotten Genius of Spew
The Gazebo of Ecstasy. Unpublished.