WRITING

Nonfiction

The Consolation of Photographs: National Geographic as an Art Institution (2013)

Bernini and the Italian Baroque (2012)

Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park (2012)

What Makes a Vermeer (2015)

Harpo: The Harpist Who Taught Himself (2017)

American Gothic: Patriotism in an Era of Depression (2017)

Hitchcock Anxiety (2017)

Caravaggio the Murderer (2017)

The Inexplicable Tenacity of George Orwell (2017)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Convalescent’s Handbook to Becoming President (2017)

Jokes I Regret, 2023 (2023)

Our Most Dangerous Family Vacation (2023)

One Year in the Catskills (2024)

January at the Violin Shop (2024)

Boats on the Chesapeake (2024)

Fiction

The Existential Reprieve (2017) Note: An excerpt of this story appeared elsewhere online.