- What is a Man?, a review of Thomas Page McBee’s Man Alive, FourTwoNine, October 14, 2014.
- Double Identity, a review of Beau Riffenburgh’s Pinkerton’s Great Detective: Â The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland. Â Brooklyn Rail, December 2013,
- Throwaway Lives, a review of Robert Kolker’s Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013.
- Eyes Everywhere, a review of Heidi Boghosian’s
 Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, 
Corporate Power, and Public Resistance, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013.
- Village People, a review of John Strausbaugh’s
 The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.
- 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 —Â a review of Nancy Cohen’s Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America. Â The Brooklyn Rail, February 21013.
- City at War — a review of Steven Jaffe’s New York at War: Â Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. Â 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: Â BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality;Â Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.
- WR: The Wanders of a Lost Soul –– a review Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Â How the Sexual Revolution Came to America;Â 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;Â Brooklyn Rail, October 2011.
- The 1920s: Â The Good Times? –– a review of Capital of the World: Â A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties, by David Wallace;Â 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.