Selected Reviews and Articles by Emily Barton
Essay: "Eli Miller's Seltzer Delivery Service," Nextbook, January 2, 2008. The essay originally appeared in the anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books, 2008.
Review of Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book, Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 30, 2007.
Review of Pat Shipman's Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari, Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 5, 2007.
Review of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, New York Observer, May 1, 2007.
Review of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 29, 2007.
Review of Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 31, 2006
Review of Zak Smith's Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 19, 2006
Review of Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer, The New York Times Book Review, August 27, 2006
"Bridge Building," Boston Review, May/June 2006
Review of Stephen Wright's The Amalgamation Polka, Newsday, February 26, 2006
Piece on the Ben Folds song "Bitches Ain't Shit" on Moistworks, February 2006
Contribution to Bookforum's Pynchon issue, Summer 2005 (scroll down to find it—it's short)
Review of Judy Budnitz's Nice Big American Baby, Bookforum, February 2005
"Chronicle Fiction: Landscape Artists", The New York Times Book Review, August 29, 2004
Review of J.D. Landis's The Taking, The New York Times Book Review, October 19, 2003
Review of Katharine Weber's The Little Women, The New York Times Book Review, September 21, 2003
Review of Cheryl Mendelson's Morningside Heights, The New York Times Book Review, August 3, 2003
Review of Hortense Calisher's Sunday Jews, The New York Times Book Review, June 2, 2002
Review of Bruno Maddox's My Little Blue Dress, The New York Times Book Review, May 27, 2001
Review of Mitch Cullin's Tideland, The Village Voice, September 2000
Review of Antonya Nelson's Living to Tell, The New York Times Book Review, June 25, 2000
Review of Judy Budnitz's If I Told You Once, The Village Voice, December 1999