Food
“Appetite (and iron-clad stomach) for success. The art of stuffing yourself while chancellor.” Politico.eu, June 17, 2017.
“The Curious Appeal of ‘Bad’ Food.” The Atlantic, August 5, 2016.
- To be reprinted in Best Food Writing 2017, ed. Holly Hughes, Da Capo Press.
“War and the Food of Dreams: An Interview with Cara De Silva.“Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 53-77.
“My Father and the Wine.” The Yale Review 103.2 (2015): 51-64.
- Reprinted in The Best American Essays 2016, eds. Jonathan Franzen and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 56-68.
- Nominated for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, from the James Beard Foundation, March 2016.
- Translated into Chinese by Chunhui Li. Posted with permission here.
- Featured in the Longreads roundup Six James Beard Finalists You Might Have Missed: A Reading List
- Audio version featured in Choice Magazine Listening’s Fall 2015 issue.
- Featured in Spoonfuls of Germany
“Currywurst.” Petits Propos Culinaires 98 (2013): 71-77.
- Reprinted in the launch issue of The Tenderloin, July 31, 2017.
“Tasting Texas.” Southwest Review 97.1 (2012): 54-62.
- Listed among the “Notable Essays of 2012” in The Best American Essays 2013
, eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- Featured in the roundup, A Food-Writing Prescription to Cure Clean-Eating
Education, Medieval Studies, the Humanities
“About the Cover.” postmedieval 8.3 (2017): 267–269.
Reading recommendation for Zócalo’s Summer Book List.
(With Berit Andersson) “Research Fellowships in Germany for Scholars in the Humanities.” Guest post at In the Middle, November 8, 2016.
“A Place of Absence, Loss, and Transcendence.” Part of a Zócalo Public Square conversation on “Why Libraries’ Survival Matters.” September 29, 2016.
“‘Frivolous’ Humanities Helped Prisoners Survive in Communist Romania.” Zócalo Public Square, May 25, 2016.
- Featured among Editors’ Picks on Discover.
- One of Zócalo Public Square’s 12 Favorite Essays of 2016, December 2016.
“On the Future of Old English.” Guest post at In the Middle, January 2014.
“The School’s Embrace.” This Book is a Class Room, eds. Lucie Kolb and Romy Rüegger. Berlin: Passenger Books and HIT, 2012. 43-44.
- Responses by Sjoerd Westbroek and Tanja Baudoin.
“Hidden Treasures at the Met Museum.” Guest post at In the Middle, July 2009.
- Excerpted at Around the Sphere.
Migration
“The Things We Take, The Things We Leave Behind.” Southwest Review 101.1 (2016): 13-29.
- Winner of a McGinnis-Ritchie Award for nonfiction from the Southwest Review.
- To be featured among the “Notables” of Best American Essays 2017.
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Why ‘that’ photo mattered this time: Our children could be on that beach, too.” On Parenting for the Washington Post. September 8, 2015.
- Cited in Washington Post and the Times-Picayune.
Dance
“Swan, Late: The Unexpected Joys of Adult Beginner Ballet.” Longreads. February 7, 2017.
“Dancing for Humanity.” fuse. A Tribal & Fusion Belly Dance Magazine 15 (2015): 11-12.
“Dance, Mama.” The Manifest-Station. September 26, 2015.
“Terpsichore.” Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 197-199.
