Essays
• At the Olympics, is going for the gold un-Canadian? | The Washington Post | February 21, 2010
• Deconstructing Babel | Kartika Review | December 2008
• Plagiarists’ Words of Woe Fall Flat | The Washington Post | September 3, 2007
Travel & Food
• Source of a world-class sauce: Vietnam’s Phu Quoc is said to be best of the best | The Washington Post | April 21, 2010
Sidebar: The real deal isn’t easy to find
Original recipes: Nuoc Cham dipping sauce; Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Memoir
• Nocturne | Winner of the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Award | Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture | Issue 19, Spring 2008
• Bo | Winner of the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award | The Journal | Issue 30.1, June 2006
Science
• Weather Front | Weatherwise | Mar/Apr 2009
• On the Job: Interview with Gerard McNiff, meteorologist for ABC’s Good Morning America | Weatherwise | Jan/Feb 2009
• On the Job: Interview with Douglas Flemer, winemaker | Weatherwise | Nov/Dec 2008
Book Reviews
• The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman | BookBrowse | March 2010
• Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon | BookBrowse | October 2009
• The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues by Ellen Raskin | Catapult | March 2009
• Literary Translation by Clifford E. Landers | Linguist List | June 2002