Reviews and Essays
The New York Times Book Review Review of Scott Hutchins's A Working Theory of Love, November 21, 2012. Review of Michael David Lukas's The Oracle of Stamboul, February 24, 2011. Review of Candace Fleming's The Great and Only Barnum, December 4, 2009. Review of Terry Pratchett's Nation, December 5, 2008. Review of Scott Westerfeld's Extras, November 11, 2007. Review of Michelle Paver's Soul Eater, May 14, 2007. Review of David Klass's Firestorm, November 12, 2006. Review of Lois Lowry's Gossamer, May 14, 2006. Review of D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, December 18, 2005. Review of Nancy Willard's retelling of Milton's Paradise Lost, November 14, 2004. Review of M. T. Anderson's The Game of Sunken Places, July 11, 2004. Review of J. Patrick Lewis and Roberto Innocenti's The Last Resort, November 17, 2002. Review of two new editions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, October 18, 1998. Boston Review "Genre Trouble," an essay on American novelist John Crowley, from December 2000/January 2001. "Adam Thorpe's One Man Show," an essay on British novelist Adam Thorpe, from Summer 2003. "Cubicle Gothic," an essay on the writing of Kings of Infinite Space, from April/May 2004. "The Secret Lives of Men," an essay on British novelist Pat Barker, from Summer 2004. "The Dreamlife of Rupert Thomson," an essay on British novelist Rupert Thomson, March/April 2006. Salon "Reading 'Anna Karenina'," an essay, July 11, 2005. "Destination: Whitechapel and Spitalfields," a literary travel article, June 14, 2006. "Destination: West Texas," a literary travel article, July 31, 2006. "Educational TV," a review of season 4 of The Wire, September 20, 2006. |
Interviews and a Novel Excerpt
Interviews Facebook Live interview with Wondrium, December 15, 2021. James Hynes's playlist of music from Next, from largeheartedboy, March 9, 2010. Stray Questions for: James Hynes, by Gregory Cowles on the Paper Cuts blog at the New York Times, April 2, 2010. Book Brahmin feature with James Hynes from Shelf Awareness (page down for interview). "Dirty Snow: Dismal Perfection," by Chris Lehmann, NPR's You Must Read This, June 29, 2006 Novel Excerpt "Mynheer Roggeveen Comes to Amsterdam," from Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1994. |