Essays
- Alaskan Wilderness Adventure Travel + Leisure (2024) 
- Perfection The Paris Review (2020) 
- Loss The Yale Review (2020) 
- Oceans The Paris Review (2019) 
- First Person (excerpt from 300 Arguments) The Paris Review (2017) 
- The Grand Shattering Harper’s (2015) 
- Mostly True T Magazine (2015) 
- Keeping Time (excerpt from Ongoingness) Harper’s (2014) 
- Motherhood (excerpt from Ongoingness) Harper’s (2013) 
- You’ll Love Her! She’s Crazy! The New Yorker (2013) 
- First Person (excerpt from The Guardians) The Paris Review (2012) 
- The Cure (excerpt from The Two Kinds of Decay) The New York Times Magazine (2008) 
- Poison (excerpt from The Two Kinds of Decay) The Believer (2008) 
Squibs
- Steal My Bookshelf The Strategist (2022) 
- Quickness Frieze (2020) 
- Cozy Mysteries The New York Review of Books (2020) 
- Pandemic Journal The New York Review of Books (2020) 
- What Should a Writer Keep? The New York Times Book Review (2017) 
- Lessons of Constraint: Book List Library of America (2017) 
- Acupuncture The New York Times Magazine (2016) 
- Choir The New York Times Magazine (2016) 
- Green-Eyed Verbs The New York Times Book Review (2016) 
- White Hair, Don't Care T Magazine (2016) 
- How to Have a Career Medium (2013) 
- Crypto-Autobiographies: Book Bag The Daily Beast (2013) 
- Writing About Not Writing: Book List Bookforum (2009) 
- Things I Realized in 2002 McSweeney’s (2003) 
- Nineteen Boys McSweeney’s (2001) 
Criticism
- Emily Maloney The New York Times Book Review (2022) 
- Darcey Steinke The New Yorker (2019) 
- Vija Celmins Frieze (2019) 
- Karl Ove Knausgaard The New York Times Book Review (2018) 
- Jules Renard The New Yorker (2017) 
- 36 Ways of Looking at the Aphorism Harper’s (2016) 
- Rebecca Solnit + Charles Fernyhough Harper’s (2014) 
- Paul Auster The New York Times Book Review (2013) 
- Julian Barnes The New York Times Book Review (2013) 
- Emily Rapp The New York Times Book Review (2013) 
- Paul Guest The New York Review of Books (2011) 
- Jack Gilbert The Poetry Foundation (2006) 
Poems
- Poem for a Man I Thought I’d Never See Again The Sewanee Review (2020) 
- The Bear The Paris Review (2016) 
- Est, Est, Est Siste Viator (2006) 
- Asking for More Explosive (2005) 
- A Glittering Blackbird (2005) 
- This Might Be Real Kulture Vulture (2005) 
- Hell Conduit (2004) 
- Love Letter (Clouds) Western Humanities Review (2002) 
- What We Miss The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002) 
- The Rider American Letters + Commentary (2000) 
Collaborations
- Writing Postpartum: Conversation with Kate Zambreno The Paris Review (2019) 
- Re-Formation: Libretto Choral Symphony by Sebastian Currier (2017) 
- The F-Word: Conversation with Eula Biss + Maggie Nelson Gulf Coast (2015) 
- Sleepers and Dreamers: Libretto Music for Chorus and Orchestra by Sebastian Currier (2012) 
- Deep-Sky Objects: Libretto Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra by Sebastian Currier (2012) 
- Woman Writer + Writer Mother: Conversation with Rachel Zucker Candor (2009) 
- Interview with Lydia Davis The Believer (2008) 
- Interview with Amy Hempel The Believer (2007)