Theory, Literature, Hoax, New York Times Book Review (back page feature), April 29, 2010.
On the Seventh Day (review of Judith Shulevitz's "The Sabbath World"), New York Times Book Review, March 20, 2010.
What's In a Name? In B. Bryson (Ed.), Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society. London: HarperPress, 2010.
Five Best Novels of Ideas, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2010.
Proud Atheists (Interview with Steven Pinker), Salon, Oct. 15, 2007.
Review of Mark Lilla's "The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West," New York Times, Sept 16, 2007.
Why I’ve Learned to Love the Novel, New Scientist, Aug. 25, 2007.
A Kibitz on Pure Reason (dialogue with Michael Weiss), Jewcy, March 17, 2007.
Review of Saul Bellow’s Novels 1956-1964, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 25, 2007.
Review of Robert Richardson’s “William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism,” New York Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 2006.
Review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million,” New York Observer.
Review of Deborah Blum's “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death,” New York Sun.
Interview in The New York Sun Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Reasonable Doubt (Op-Ed on Spinoza), New York Times, Sept. 12, 2006.
Review of Robert Hellenga’s Philosophy Made Simple, New York Times Book Review, April 23, 2006.
Interview in Edge
Interview in Butterflies and Wheels
Commentary on Richard Foreman’s “The Gods are Pounding My Head!” in www.edge.org
Contribution to World Question Center 2005, www.edge.org
The Seed Salon (dialogue with Steven Pinker), Seed Magazine
Writers on Writing: Carried from the Couch on the Wings of Enchantment, The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2002.
The Two Cultures. In M. Kramer (Ed.), The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Literature: Two Worlds? Maggid, 2004.
Against Logic, Tikkun, Dec. 1997.
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen (short story)