Journalism / Public scholarship

• "A Picture of Lenin Used to Hang in my Classroom. In Seattle, He Sometimes Wears a Dildo" The Stranger, August 28, 2017.
  
• "Masha Gessen Journeys to a Jewish Land Without Jews" (on Masha Gessen's book about Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the USSR and Russia), The Forward (September 9, 2016)
• "Ex-Soviets Adopt America" (review of Boris Fishman's novel Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo), Los Angeles Review of Books, March 8, 2016.
• "In Memoriam: Svetlana Boym" Tablet Magazine, August 7, 2015.

• My essay on David Bezmozgis's  novel The Betrayers (The New Republic, 9/19/2014)

• "Russian Jewish American Lit Goes Boom!" Tablet Magazine (June 17, 2014)
• "Crimean Crisis Revives a Classic Soviet Jewish Joke" Tablet  (4/1/14)
• "Steamrolling Onto the World Stage" - on the Sochi  Olympics and Russia's human rights record (on PEN American Center  and on The Huffington Post, 2/15/2014)
• "Little Failure" is Big Success by Ex-Right Wing Soviet Jew Who Went to Oberlin, Therapy" (essay on Gary Shteyngart's memoir), Tablet, Jan. 6, 2014
• "Goodbye, Lenin?" (op-ed on the fall of Lenin's statue in Kiev during the ongoing protests there), The International New York Times, December 9, 2013
• "How Schindler's List Got it Wrong" (essay on the new book on the representation of the Holocaust in Soviet cinema, The Forward, Sept 20, 2013
• "Stuck in Sheremetyevo" (essay on Snowden and the airport where he is stuck and whence I emigrated); The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog (July 9. '13) 
• "Russian Journalist and Activist Masha Gessen Takes on Vladimir Putin" (Lilith Magazine, Fall 2013)
• "Russia's Summer of Idealism" (op-ed, The New York Times, July 18, 2012)
• "Moscow Goes Kosher" (about a  kosher restaurant trend in Moscow in the summer of 2012; Tablet Magazine, July 12, 2012)
• "My Jewish Grandfather and Tatar Boys" (in Russian, about Jewish-Muslim relations in the Soviet Union, Ototo, May 25, 2012)
• "A Jewish Death at the End of the Soviet Union" (about one of the victims of the August 1991 coup in the Soviet Union; The Forward, August 19, 2011)
• "Translations" (on Ludmila Ulitskaya's novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter and the phenomenon of Russian Jewish Christians; Tablet Magazine, June 29, 2011)
• "Dissonance" (on the rebranding of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin by his Russian-born wife; Tablet Magazine, January 28, 2011)

My tiny little essays on The Jewniverse:

• On Dazbog, Denver's Soviet-themed coffee chain.
  
• On Nadia Kalman's novel The Cosmopolitans
• On the Russian/Yiddish "wandering philologist," Psoy Korolenko
• On Irina Reyn's novel What Happened to Anna K.