- What Academic Freedom? — a review of Marjorie Heins’ Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.
- The Body Politics – a review of Nancy Cohen’s Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America. The Brooklyn Rail, February 21013.
- City at War – a review of Steven Jaffe’s New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.
- Deviant Reflections: A Voice of Sexual Freedom -- a review of Deviations, a Gayle Rubin Reader; Brooklyn Rail, June 2012.
- Urban Combustion: When Morality & Politics Mix -- a review of Richard Zacks’ Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York ; Brooklyn Rail, May 2012.
- Another Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s -- a review of Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance and Marni Davis’ Jews and Booze; Brooklyn Rail, April 2012.
- Perversion is No Longer Perverse -- a review of Margo Weiss’ Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality; Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.
- WR: The Wanders of a Lost Soul -- a review Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America; Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.
- Are You What You Wear?: The Politics of Fashion -- a review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Center of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss; Brooklyn Rail, October 2011.
- The 1920s: The Good Times? -- a review of Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties, by David Wallace; Brooklyn Rail, May 2011.
- Points of Moral Friction: When Classes Confront Each Other -- a review of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, by Lisa Dodson; Brooklyn Rail, May 2011.
- Cyber Wars 2.0 -- a review of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov; Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.
- The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal” — a review of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
- Bottoms-Up American History — a review of A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell; Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.
- Steward’s Notes from the Underground — book review of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade Justin Spring; Brooklyn Rail, November 2010.
- The Not-So Roaring Twenties — a review of Anything Goes: A Biography of the Twenties by Lucy Moore and Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent; Brooklyn Rail, July 2010.
- Sex & the City of Orgies — a review of Sex in the City: An Illustrated History by Alison Maddex and NYCSEX: How New York City Transformed Sex in America (New York Museum of Sex); Sexuality and Culture, Winter, 2004.