"In Search of Yitzhaq Shami" Raritan, Winter 2009

"What Lies Beneath," The Nation, July 30, 2008
On the politics of archaeology in Jerusalem

"Lives on the Ground," The Nation, February 18, 2008
On Palestinian and Israeli memoirs

"Recollecting the Palestinian Past," Raritan, Autumn 2006
On Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun

Letter from Jerusalem, The Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2005/06
On British and Israeli archives

Letter from Jerusalem, The Jewish Quarterly, Autumn, 2004
On S. Y. Agnon and Jerusalem libraries

Selected film and book reviews, The American Prospect, 2000-2002

"The Face of Spain and South from Granada," Tin House, Fall 2000
On Gerald Brenan