Tony Judt's 20th Century
The National, April 26, 2012
Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Pre-Raphaelite
The Boston Globe, February 22, 2012
Europe's Vanished Kingdoms
The National , January 27 2012
An Honourable Englishman: The life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Boston Globe, December 25, 2011
The Price of Life is Death: Mallory on Everest
The National, December 8, 2011
Why The Nazis Fought On: Ian Kershaw's The End
The National, November 11, 2011
South with the Sun: Amundsen at the South Pole
The Boston Globe , October 23, 2011
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The National, July 1, 2011
Hugh Thomas and Spain's Golden Age
The National, February 4, 2011
Blood on the Tracks: The First Global Jihad
The National, July 23, 2010
Arms Across the Atlantic: Norman Stone's Cold War
The National, May 27, 2010
1688 and All That: The First Modern Revolution
The National, December 24, 2009
Bared Minimalist: The Life of Raymond Carver
Bookforum, December/January 2010
The End Was Nigh
The National, August 20, 2009
Commuter Literate: The Life of John Cheever
Bookforum, April/May 2009
Alan Wolfe on Liberalism's Future
The National, March 20, 2009
Read All About It: The Rise of William Randolph Hearst
The National, February 6, 2009
Cash Money: Niall Ferguson’s Financial History of the World
The National, November 20, 2008
Bosnia’s Haunted Past
The New York Times Book Review, October 3, 2008
It’s Just War: The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
The National, September 12, 2008
The James Gang
The National, August 14, 2008
A Zany Inside-out Novel: Adam Thirlwell on Translation
The Boston Globe, August 3, 2008
Kingsley and Martin Amis: The Family Firm
The National, July 24, 2008
V.S. Naipaul: The World Is Not Enough
The National, May 15, 2008
Louis Ferrante: The Wiseguy Who Got Wise
Newsday, April 27, 2008
John Quincy Adams: Lousy President, Great Congressman
The Boston Globe, February 24, 2008
The American Way of Eating
Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2008
Outsider Artist: The Ecstasies of Alfred Kazin
Bookforum, February/March 2008
Pablo Picasso: The Master and His Muses
Vogue, November 2007
Ralph Ellison: A Tribe of His Own
Bookforum, April/May 2007
Clive James: The Omnivore
Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2007
A Confrontational Enthusiast: The Criticism of Lee Siegel
The New York Observer, December 24, 2006
Pittsburgh Plutocrats: The Lives of Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon
The New York Observer, October 22, 2006
The Splendors and Miseries of Slackerdom
Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2006
Marching On: How Penguin Became a British Institution
Bookforum, April/May 2006
Who the Devil Made It? Writers vs. Directors
The Boston Globe, January 29, 2006
France and America: The Very Best of Enemies
The Boston Globe, April 10, 2005
V.S. Pritchett: A Happy Man of Letters
Bookforum, February/March 2005
Graham Greene: Sinner Take All
Bookforum, October/November 2004
Terry Eagleton: The Self-Critic
The Boston Globe, December 28, 2003
Eric Hobsbawm: The Historian Who Won't Say Goodbye to All That
The Boston Globe, March 2, 2003
