"Round, Flat, and Egg-Shaped" --an account of a small skirmish on the border between religion and science, August 2011
"Ecce Homo" a review of Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate, for The Bookpress, December 2002
"Secularism, Science, and the Islamic Citadel" a review of Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong for The Bookpress, March 2002
"Why I am Not a Cultural Anthropologist"a pointed look at a recent anthropological controversy. From The Bookpress, December 2000
"Post Pre-Raphaelite" a critical appreciation of actress Kate Winslet, from Film Comment magazine, March/April 1998 (PDF)
"Antiquities Near the Beaten Path" a travel article published in The New York Times, 10/6/96
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