Why Hollywood Gets The Publishing Industry WrongJanuary 2019—The New York Times Book Review
The Tail EndAugust 2024—The New Yorker
I Wrote a Memoir About Grief. That Was the Beginning.December 2024—The New York Times
The Sisters IssueMay 2016—Vanity Fair
Why Women ApologizeJune 2015—New York Times
Identity Confusions Arise On The Set of Gossip GirlJune 2012—The Believer
They Stay The Same Age: From “Lolita in The Afterlife” (Vintage Books, 2021)
The Toughest Ticket in TownSeptember 2015—The New York Times
Relative StrangerApril 2018—Esquire Magazine
Waitress: The MusicalApril 2016—Vanity Fair
On The Move: Three Books to Keep Out of The BoxesApril 2013—NPR
Let Me Sum Up2018—The Princess Bride for The Criterion Collection
On Death, Dying and TextJune 2020—Vanity Fair
On AI November 2023—The Washington Post
Heathers: What’s Your Damage?December 2023—Galerie
In Loving MemoryJuly 2024—Galerie
20 Years of GmailApril 2024—New York Magazine
A RetreatOctober 2020—Criterion
Paper ShowAugust 2010—Salon
New Year's EveDecember 2017—Sunday Times London
Oh, Make Me OverSeptember 2024—Galerie
Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a NovelMarch 2020—New York Times Book Review
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary TakedownNovember 2024—The New Yorker
Essay on JoyMarch 2024—Harper’s Bazaar
The 21st-Century American PromApril 2012—The Smithsonian
Did You Know?: Essay on Grief February 2024—The Los Angeles Times
The Playwrights Giving Broadway a Moral CompassApril 2017—Vanity Fair
50 Years of Breakfast In A Little Black DressOctober 2011—NPR
The Doctor is A WomanMarch 26, 2018—New York Magazine
Why the Right Can’t Derail the Girl ScoutsAugust 2013—Salon
The Virtues of Shelf-lessnessAugust 2018—The New York Times Book Review
Novel DysmorphiaOctober 2015—LitHub
On InsomniaApril 2014—The Guardian
Candy-Cane CollectionDecember 2011—Vanity Fair
The First CutFebruary 2013—Medium
A Scene of the CrimeMarch 2012—GQ
It's Time To Cut Barbie a Little SlackNovember 2013—Smithsonian
25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was The Best FriendSeptember 2019—The New York Times
Sorry Not SorryMarch 2018—Playboy
Politics of The OscarsMarch 2018—Los Angeles Times
Diary, 1999June 2022—The Paris Review
On WeddingsJune 2010—GQ
Criterion CluesJanuary 2007—The New York Observer
The SignsNovember 2015—Cosmopolitan
On The DeclineMarch 2025—LitHub
On Crying (from the book “Sad Happens”)November 2023—The Guardian
Once Upon A LifeJuly 2010—The Guardian