Selected Short Fiction, Articles, Essays, & Reviews
Short Fiction
“Better,” Guernica, 12 August 2019
“The Once and Future Capital,” the Massachusetts Review, Summer 2014
Hypothetical novel: Golems! A Musical, on designer Charles Orr’s Hypothetical Library blog, 23 August 2010
“The Distillery,” (excerpt from Brookland), Conjunctions, Fall 2005
“An Affair of State: Secretary B. Writes to the People’s Committee,” Story, Summer 1999
“At the End of the Century, the Manufacture of the New,” American Short Fiction, Summer 1996
Essays and Print/Online Interviews
Interview with Corrina Barsan, “BARB Turning Pages: Emily Barton,” BARB: For Ladies Like Us, 18 February 2018
“Love Ye Therefore the Stranger: The Night Kingston, NY Became a Sanctuary City,” The Weeklings, 9 February 2017
“The Kind of City I Want To Live In,” the Kingston Times, 7 January 2017
“Marly Youmans’s Catherwood,” Post Road, November 2016
“Five Questions with Emily Barton,” Washington Square Review, 23 November 2016
“Worlds Apart,” for The Jewish Daily Forward’s Sisterhood blog, 25 October 2016
Maggie Cooper, “The Rumpus Interview with Emily Barton,” The Rumpus, 19 October 2016
“How a Dare Morphed Into a Full-Fledged Novel,” Signature Reads, 14 October 2016 (no longer available online)
“My Boyfriend, Daniel Deronda,” Read It Forward, 7 October 2016
“A Decade in the Literary Wilderness: A Conversation” (with Emily Barton, Alexander Chee, and Whitney Terrell), The Millions, 27 September 2016
“Women at Work: Irina Reyn and Emily Barton in Conversation,” The Paris Review blog, 30 August 2016
“The Book Show #1462 - Emily Barton,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 26 July 2016
“The Best Thing I Ever Found Tucked in a Book,” Read It Forward, 11 July 2016
Interview with Jon Winokur, Advice to Writers, 17 May 2016
“My Son Wanted to Be Haman for Purim. This Is Why I Approve,” Kveller, 23 March 2016
“Esther and the Khazars vs. the Nazis: a Purim Story,” The Jewish Daily Forward’s Sisterhood blog, 21 March 2016
James Peacock, “An Interview with Emily Barton,” Contemporary Literature, March 2015 (available as a PDF to subscribers)
“Write What You Learn” (a conversation with Emily Barton and Susan Bernofsky), PEN America issue #16: Teachers, August 2012
Caroline Grant, “A Conversation with Emily Barton,” Literary Mama, August 2012
“The Jazz Singers,” Threepenny Review, Summer 2011
"Eli Miller's Seltzer Delivery Service," Nextbook (before it became Tablet), January 2, 2008. The essay originally appeared in the anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books, 2008.
"Bridge Building," Boston Review, May/June 2006
Book Reviews
(Alphabetical by name of publication, then reverse chronological)
Bookforum
Morrison H. Heckscher’s Creating Central Park, April/May 2008
Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex, December/January 2006
Contribution to Bookforum's Pynchon issue, Summer 2005
Judy Budnitz's Nice Big American Baby, February 2005
Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive, Spring 2004
James Sanders’s Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, Spring 2002
Howard Rock and Susan Dash Moore’s Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images, Winter 2001
Viktor Pelevin’s Buddha’s Little Finger, Summer 2000
The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Geoffrey O’Brien’s The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Murder and Madness in Saratoga’s Gilded Age, 22 August 2010
Marilynne Robinson's Home, Sunday, September 7, 2008
Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book, December 30, 2007.
Pat Shipman's Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari, August 5, 2007
Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, April 29, 2007
Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, December 31, 2006
Zak Smith's Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, November 19, 2006
Debby Applegate’s The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, 25 June 2006
Amy Hempel’s Collected Stories, 14 May 2006
Allegra Goodman’s Intuition, 5 March 2006
Moment
Nicole Krauss’s Forest Dark, September/October 2017
Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, November/December 2016
New York Newsday
Review of Stephen Wright's The Amalgamation Polka, Newsday, February 26, 2006
The New York Observer
Review of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, New York Observer, May 1, 2007
The New York Times Book Review
Maria Hummel’s Goldenseal, 9 January 2024
G. Willow Wilson’s The Bird King, 19 April 2019
Kenji Miyazawa’s Once and Forever, 9 November 2018
Sharon Pywell’s The Romance Reader’s Guide to Life, May 2017
Amos Oz’s Judas, 11 December 2016
Muriel Barbery’s The Life of Elves, 28 February 2016
Michael Parker’s The Watery Part of the World, 20 May 2011
Howard Norman’s Devotion, 25 February 2007
Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer, August 27, 2006
"Chronicle Fiction: Landscape Artists", August 29, 2004
J.D. Landis's The Taking, October 19, 2003
Katharine Weber's The Little Women, September 21, 2003
Cheryl Mendelson's Morningside Heights, August 3, 2003
Hortense Calisher's Sunday Jews, June 2, 2002
Bruno Maddox's My Little Blue Dress, May 27, 2001
Antonya Nelson's Living to Tell, June 25, 2000
Scott Lasser’s Battle Creek, 5 March 2000
Elaine Feinstein’s Pushkin: A Biography, 23 January 2000
Daniel Stern’s One Day’s Perfect Weather, 19 December 1999
Antonia Logue’s Shadow-Box, 14 November 1999
Alice Fulton’s Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry, 5 September 1999
Louis Auchincloss’s The Anniversary and Other Stories, 1 August 1999
Ezra and Dorothy Pound’s Letters in Captivity, 14 March 1999
Roger McDonald’s Mr. Darwin’s Shooter, 24 January 1999
Beverly Coyle’s Taken In, 6 September 1998
Noah Hawley’s A Conspiracy of Tall Men, 23 August 1998
Donald Justice’s Oblivion: On Writers and Writing, 19 July 1998
Kyoko Mori’s Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures, 8 March 1998
Shay Youngblood’s Soul Kiss, 22 February 1998
Herbert Gold’s She Took My Arm as if She Loved Me, 8 February 1998
Sinclair Lewis’s If I Were Boss, 28 December 1997
Joseph Epstein’s Life Sentences: Literary Essays, 2 November 1997
A. S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre’s Imagining Characters, 14 September 1997
Hortense Calisher’s In the Slammer with Carol Smith, 27 July 1997
Charles Baxter’s Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, 4 May 1997
Molly Giles’s Creek Walk and Other Stories, 2 March 1997
John Welter’s I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation, 29 December 1996
Ellen Gilchrist’s The Courts of Love, 17 November 1996
Ned Rorem’s Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces, 3 November 1996
Alan Shapiro’s The Last Happy Occasion, 27 October 1996
Poetry Magazine
Elizabeth Spires’s Now the Green Blade Rises, September 2004
Times Literary Supplement
Vigdis Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead, 6 January 2023
Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven and All the Lovers in the Night, 10 June 2022
The Village Voice and the Voice Literary Supplement
Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, 12–18 April 2003
Michael Kimball’s The Way the Family Got Away, 17–23 January 2001
Mitch Cullin's Tideland, September 2000
Judy Budnitz's If I Told You Once, December 1999
The Washington Post Book World
Lynn Freed’s House of Women, 20 January 2002
Michele Roberts’s The Looking Glass, 22 July 2001