Essays

Book Club Babble
When the Person is the Message, May 12, 2019

Drunken Pen Writing
Review: Ashley Sugarnotch & The Wolf by Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes, October 14, 2020
Review: White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar, May 4, 2020
Review: The Ghost of Mile 43 by Craig Rodgers, June 24, 2019

The Shadow (Medium)
The ‘Undecidability’ of Life: Freedom and Despair in Will Eaves’ ‘Murmur’ (November 21, 2022)
Originally published in Tiny Flames Press, April 3, 2019 (now offline)

Running in Shadows (blog)
“Crisis: A Playlist,” my guest post, May 27, 2020

Underneaththis (blog)
What it feels like to “find out”: Review of Vow, by Wendy Plump, my guest post, April 29, 2013

American Atheist
Google as God: A Theology of Information Technology (PDF) April 2009
co-authored with Richard Wassersug
Blog Responses:
“Google as God and another free sci-fi story idea.” Aaron Stark. ZBlogs. June 8, 2009.
“Google as God.” Nathan Schneider. KillingTheBuddha.Com. June 7, 2009.
“Google is better than God.” James Tracy. AnAtheist.Net. June 6, 2009.
“Google as God.” Hemant Mehta. FriendlyAtheist.Com. June 5, 2009.

Jewish Mosaic – Torah Queeries
Love Beyond Possession – Parashat Beshalach, February 2009
Liberating Foreigners, Together with Our Sisters and Brothers – Shmini Atzeret, October 2006

Fresh Yarn
The Weight of the Wannigan, Or, The Fear of Wilderness April 2005

Good Gosh Almighty
When I Stop Naming Eunuchs Fall 2004

Whosoever
Secret Wounds, Magic Words: Eunuchs in the Bible July 2009
Why Change Your Sex? July 2004

FTM International
“Mythological Delirium”: The Centaur in the Garden as a Story for Transsexuals (PDF) Issue 65, Dec. 2007

Shalom Magazine (Massachusetts)
“What Does ‘Judeo-Christian’ Mean?” Rosh Hashanah 2022 pp. 48–49
“Turning 40 in the Shadow of Coronavirus” Passover 2020 pp. 20-21
“The Solidarity We Need: On Resisting Antisemitism” Chanukah 2019 pp. 30-31
“Falling Gracefully: On Leonard Cohen’s ‘Book of Mercy'” Rosh Hashanah 2019 pp. 40-41
“The Suicide of Nadav and Abihu” Passover 2019 p. 40
“A Balanced Hope” Chanukah 2018 pp. 44-45
“Undisguised Acceptance: Why I’m Voting Yes on 3” Rosh Hashanah 2018 p. 51
“Unplague the World” Passover 2018 p. 16
“Your Menorah is Not in Your Window” Chanukah 2017 p. 22

JewishBoston.com (Boston, Mass.)
What can we make of the death of Aaron’s sons? March 7, 2019
On Decency: Defending Transgender Rights August 14, 2018
None of us are ‘animals’ May 23, 2018

The Columbia Precipice (Columbia University, New York)
This was a student publication that is no longer online. Here, I’ve provided PDFs.
10 g’s will Kill You (PDF), Issue 2, May 2014
Only Some are Serial Killers (PDF), Issue 1, May 2013

Global Comment
The Reform of the Public Warning System April 12, 2005

Prospect (Brown University)
Fifteen Meditations on Masculinist Physico-Spiritual Experience Spring 2002
First Place Winner, Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction, 2002