- "What It Means to Write in the Direction of Darkness"
- LitHub
- "'How to Speak Whale' Is a Love Letter to the Beauty and Power of All Life on this Planet"
- Oprah Daily
- "Jennifer Egan's Dazzling The Candy House"
- Oprah Daily
- "Liz Phair Still Doesn't Care What We Think"
- New York Times Book Review
- "My Year of Writing Anonymously"
- Lithub
- "On Power Between Women: The Handmaid's Tale Revisited"
- Catapult
- "Mary Gaitskill's The Mare"
- New York Times Book Review
- "Proteus: Joni Mitchell, Toni Morrison, Roni Horn, and the Evolution of Women Artists"
- The New Yorker
- "Living on Internet Time"
- The New Yorker
- "Influence: A Practice in Three Wanders"
- The New England Review
- "Modern Love: Is God Just Not That Into Me?"
- The New York Times
- "The Magpie"
- Catapult
Other Media
- Interview: "The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry"
- First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
- Interview: "On our tendency to elide the truth"
- The Yale Review
- Interview
- First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
- On The Complicities
- The Boston Globe
- "Whale Story"
- House of SpeakEasy
- "After the World Ends: The Artist's Response to Crisis"
- Lecture, Breadloaf Writers Conference
- Interview
- Henry Review
- On The Sky Below
- New York Times Book Review Podcast
- "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes
- Directed by John Cameron Mitchell, released 5 September 2006
- On A Seahorse Year
- The San Francisco Chronicle