- Columns in Frieze
- The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse; on Caroline Blackwood, The New Yorker
- Wilder, Riskier, More Generous: on Cookie Mueller, The New York Review of Books
- A Language of One's Own: on Lydia Ourahmane, Artforum
- Happiness, As Such; on Natalia Ginzburg, Bookforum
- An Earthquake Has Broken Tehran, but She's Looking for a Different Fix, The New York Times Book Review
- On Maria Stepanova's In Memory of Memory, Artforum
- Wayne Koestenbaum's Winningly Capricious Stories, Bookforum
- Horse Crazy and the Torment of Romantic Obsession; on Gary Indiana, Bookforum
- Curb Your Enthusiasm; Sonallah Ibrahim’s ICE, Bookforum
- Our Woman in Tehran; on Kate Millet, Bookforum
- History is a Continuous Movement; an interview with Simone Fattal, Frieze
- Remembering Barbara Harrell-Bond, The Nation
- A Theatrical Wunderkind, Gone Too Soon, Gets a Museum Show, The New York Times T Magazine
- Midnight’s Child; The Paintings of M.F. Husain, The New York Review of Books
- The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani, The New Yorker
- The Extravagant Jane Bowles, The New York Times Book Review
- The French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood, The New Yorker
- Unsolved Problems; on Jane Bowles, The Los Angeles Review of Books
- Who Was Van Leo? Aperture
- Bhupen Khakhar, Artforum
- Letter From Abu Dhabi, The New Yorker
- Frances Stark and the Art of Narcissism, The New York Times T Magazine
- Return of the Strongman, Harper’s
- Why the Art World Has Fallen for 90-year-old Etel Adnan, The Wall Street Journal Magazine
- The Madness of Queen Jane; on Jane Bowles, The New Yorker
- Unedited History: Iran 1940-2014, Artforum
- The Egyptian Army's Unlikely Allies, The New Yorker
- A Pilot’s Refusal, Reimagined, The New York Review of Books Daily
- Regimes of the Image, Artforum
- What Do Egypt's Writers Do Now? The New York Times Book Review
- In Egypt, the Lure of Leaving, The New York Times Magazine
- Good Intentions, Frieze
- Islam’s Answer to MTV, The New York Times Magazine
- The Objects of the Exercise; on Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, The New York Times Magazine
- Notebook (Dubai), Harper’s
- Trading Places, the New Middle East Art Market, Artforum
- The Teaching Cure, The New York Times Magazine
- Why Teach for America?, The New York Times Magazine
- The Hard Realities of Soft Power, The New York Times Magazine