Journalism / Public scholarship
- Review of Marat Grinberg's The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, In geveb, Nov 2023
- "My Body Lives in History: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon," Jewish Currents, February 2, 2023
- "An American Package for Soviet Jews," In geveb, January 18, 2023.
- "We Need New Stories of Post-Soviet Jews," co-authored with Julia Alekseyeva, Olga Mironova, and Tova Benjamin, in the special issue of Jewish Currents devoted to Soviet Jews.
- "Not Just Russians, Not Just Jews: On New Works by Irina Reyn, Boris Fishman, and David Bezmozgis" (written together with Maggie Levantovskaya), Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2019.
- "A Road Trip Through America's Decline" (on Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success), Jewish Currents, September 2018.
- "An Ending for the Conflicted Cold Warriors of The Americans," The New Republic, May 29, 2018.
- "Three More Pieces" (on the events in Gaza in May 2018), Jewish Currents, May 16, 2018.
- "Chasing My Passport From the Soviet Union’s Collapse to the Shuttering of Seattle's Russian Consulate," The Stranger, March 29, 2018.
- "Immigrant Literature Should Make You a Little Uncomfortable," Jewish in Sesttle, March 2018.
- "A Picture of Lenin Used to Hang in my Classroom. In Seattle, He Sometimes Wears a Dildo" The Stranger, August 28, 2017.
- "Labeling the Russian Immigrant: Irina Reyn's The Imperial Wife," Los Angeles Review of Books (2016)
- "Masha Gessen Journeys to a Jewish Land Without Jews" 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.
- "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)