Literature

• Walt Whitman, an American: the life and work of the bard of democracy
• The World Spins On: The Value of Herman Melville 
• The Phantom Tollbooth: a book for all seasons 
  
• An Unquiet Belle: The Mysteries of Emily Dickinson Revealed
• Goodbye, Colossus: The last chapter of Philip Roth’s fiction
• Henry James and American Painting
• Updike’s Wager: Brilliance, Doubt, and the Miracle of Existence
• The Tortured Soul of Edgar Allan Poe
• Infinite Wallace: Tragedy, Comedy, and Faith in the Life of David Foster Wallace​
• ​Oscar Wilde's Morality Play​
• Alice in Wonderland in the Context of World Literature
• Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment at 150
• It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200
• Philip Roth: A Writer and His People 
• Philip Roth's The Plot Against America: Poetry or Prophecy?
• When Good Books Are Written by Bad People
• The Monster and the Novelists: Literature in the Age of Trump
• Tennis in Literature
• The Solomon Complex: on the dilemmas of being a writer and an Orthodox rabbi
• The iPhone, Millennials, and the Future of Literature 
• Why the World Needs Bookstores
• Three Ethical Mystics: The Poetics of Ethics in the Spiritual Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Abraham Isaac Kook