Book Reviews
San Francisco’s Plague Years (Distillations, September 2019)
Exhuming the Flu: Remembering the Spanish Flu 100 Years Later (Distillations, Fall/Winter 2019)
From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons (Distillations, Spring 2018)
Open Up and Say AAH! (The Awl, May 2017)
Plague Doctors and Cannibals: Food Fights is a Playful History of Cuisine (PASTE, January 2017)
Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Morbid Anatomy blog, Sept. 2014)
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records (Fine Books & Collections, July 2014)
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (Economist/Prospero, April 2014)
A Burnable Book (Fine Books & Collections, March 2014)
Cult Classic: Codex Seraphinianus (Fine Books & Collections, Nov. 2013)
Art Made From Books (Fine Books & Collections, Oct. 2013)
Huguette Clark’s Empty Mansions (Fine Books & Collections, Sept. 2013)
Summer Reading II: Stoker’s Manuscript (Fine Books & Collections, July 2013)
Astor Place Vintage (Fine Books & Collections, July 2013)
Turtle Diary (The Barnes & Noble Review, June 2013)
Summer Reading: The Bookman’s Tale (Fine Books & Collections, June 2013)
Austen’s Shawl (Fine Books & Collections, March 2013)
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen (Fine Books & Collections, Jan. 2013)
The Ideal Bookshelf (Fine Books & Collections, Dec. 2012)
Shakespeare’s Tremors and Orwell’s Cough (Fine Books & Collections, Nov. 2012)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (Fine Books & Collections, Nov. 2012)
Bookstores, Booksellers, and Writers (Fine Books & Collections, Oct. 2012)
Handwritten Recipes: A Bookseller’s Collection (Fine Books & Collections, Oct. 2012)
Phantoms on the Bookshelves (Fine Books & Collections, Aug. 2012)
A Romance for Collectors (Fine Books & Collections, April 2012)
Tanselle’s Book Jackets (Fine Books & Collections, March 2012)
Mark My Words (Fine Books & Collections, Dec. 2011)
Is the Book History? (Fine Books & Collections, Aug. 2011)
Eco’s Confessions (Fine Books & Collections, June 2011)
Correspondence (Fine Books & Collections, May 2011)
By Association (Fine Books & Collections, March 2011)
Scarlett at 75 (Fine Books & Collections, Feb. 2011)
The Night Bookmobile (Fine Books & Collections, Dec. 2010)
Paper Chase (Fine Books & Collections, Aug. 2010)
Beauty and the Book (Fine Books & Collections, April 2010)
Reader in Wonderland (Fine Books & Collections, Feb. 2010)
Off the Map (Fine Books & Collections, Jan. 2010)