Hineni, (chapbook) Finishing Line Press, 2003. 

Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, (co-author Bill
Oliver), Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998.                                   

Poetry

“Eating the Day,” California Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3.

“Plague,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. V, 2003.

“The Book of Vashti,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. V, 2003.

“Esther’s Way,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. V, 2003

“Low Soul (1968),” Zillah, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2003.

“Hester Speaks to Her Author,” Zillah, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2003.

“Rachel’s Triumph,” Shofar, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 2002).

“Ruth Wonders,” Shofar, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 2002).

“Lie Down,” Barbaric Yawp, Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2002).

‘Four Bowers,” Ascent, Vol. 26 (Winter 2002).

“Huldah’s Dream,” Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature Vol. 5 2000.

“Dog Training,” Barbaric Yawp Vol. 5, No. 3 September 2001.

 “Present/Absent,” Concho River Review, Vol. XV, No. 2 (Fall 2001).

“Miriam Talks Back,” Xavier Review, (Vol. 19, No. 2), also accepted for an
anthology entitled the Paradoxes of Miriam, Jason Aronson Publishing,
forthcoming.

“Walking Out,” Bridges, (Spring 2000).  Rpt. Aries 2000.

“Deborah’s War Song,” Bridges, (Spring 2000).

“Rebekah Hears God,” Midstream, forthcoming.

“Sarah Laughs,” Midstream, (January 2000).

“Leah Tells an Old Story,” New Letters, Vol. 66 No. 4/2000.

“Tamar Tells It Her Way,” Midstream, forthcoming.

“Jael Chooses,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001).

“Ribbons,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001).

“River,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001).

“Judith Mourns,” Confrontation, No. 72/73 Fall 2000/Winter 2001.

“Looking Back,” 13^th Moon, Vol. XVII (no. 1 and 2).

“The River Speaks,” 13^th Moon, Vol. XVII (No. 1 and 2).

“Hineni,” Lilith, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 2002).

Articles and Notes

“Interview with Edwidge Danticat,” Contemporary Literature, Vol. 44
No. 2 (Summer 2003).

“Lies, Secrets, Truthtelling and Imagination in Philip Roth’s The Human
Stain,” Studies in American Jewish Literature, 20.

T. Coraghessan Boyle entry, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 278
(American Novelists Since World War II) .

“Boxing with I Married a Communist,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Vol. 19, 2000).

“Singing the Black Blues:  An Interview with August Wilson,”
Contemporary Literature (Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1999).  Portions
reprinted in The Paris Review (Vol. 153).

“The Female Characters in Bernard Malamud's Short Stories,” Studies
in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 17, 1998).

“Making His Muscles Work for Himself:  An Interview with David Henry
Hwang,” The Literary Review, (Vol. 42, No. 2).

“Faith and Puttermesser:  The Contrasting Visions of Two Jewish
Feminists,” in Talking Back, Univ. of New England Press, 1997. 

“An Interview with Richard Ford,” The Paris Review, (Vol. 140, Fall 1996).

“Time and Memory in Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Disturbances in the
Field and Leaving Brooklyn,” Studies in American Jewish Literature
(Vol. 14, 1995).

“Places and Visions: An Interview with Christopher Tilghman,”
(Co-author Bill Oliver) The Literary Review (Vol. 38, No. 2).

“The Contrasting Visions of Bernard Malamud and Flannery O'Connor,”
Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 12 1993).

“The Mystery of Language: An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips,”
(Co-author Bill Oliver) New Letters (Vol. 61, No. 1).

“’Don't I Know You?’: An Interview with Gina Berriault,” (co-author Bill
Oliver) The Literary Review (Vol. 37, No. 4).

“Out of Boundaries: An Interview with Rick Bass,” (co-author Bill Oliver)
New Letters (Vol. 59, No. 3).

“An Interview with Leonard Michaels,” (co-author Bill Oliver) New England
Review (Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 1993).

“Andre Dubus: An Interview,” (co-author Bill Oliver) Crazyhorse (No. 44,
Spring 1993).

“An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason” (co-author Bill Oliver)
Contemporary Literature (Vol. 32, Winter 1991).

Entry on Call It Sleep, Jewish-American History and Culture: An
Encyclopedia, Garland 1991.

“An Interview with Tobias Wolff” (co-author Bill Oliver), Contemporary
Literature (Vol. 31, Spring 1990).

“’Jew on the Brain’ in ‘Wrathful Philippics,’” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Vol. 8, Fall 1989).

“Grace Paley's Jewish Miniatures,” Studies in American Jewish Literature,
(Vol. 8, Spring 1989).

Biographical entry on Isaac Rosenfeld, The Blackwell Companion to
Jewish Culture, 1989.

“American-Jewish Fiction Since 1945,” in Handbook of American-Jewish
Literature, Greenwood Press, 1988.

“An Interview with Margaret Atwood,” Shenandoah (Vol. 37, No. 2, 1987).
Reprinted in a collection of Atwood interviews published by Ontario
Review Press, 1989.

“Cynthia Ozick as a Jewish Writer,” Studies in American Jewish Literature
(Vol. 6, Fall 1987).

“Seeing and Suffering in The Pawnbroker and Mr. Sammler's Planet,”
Modern Jewish Studies Annual, 1986.

“Tillie Olsen:  The Writer as a Jewish Woman,” Studies in American
Jewish Literature, (Vol. 5, 1986).  Reprinted in The Critical Response to
Tillie Olsen, ed. Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse, Greenwood Press,
1994.

Biographical essay on Isaac Rosenfeld, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
(Vol. 19, 1983).

Biographical  essay on Henry Roth,  Dictionary of Literary Biography
(Vol. 19, 1983).

“Lillian Hellman:  ‘The First Jewish Nun on Prytania Street’” in From
Hester Street to Hollywood, Indiana University Press, 1983.

“Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening,” Negative Capability (Vol. 2,
Fall 1982).

“Sexual Love in I.B. Singer's Work,” Studies in American Jewish Literature
(Vol. 1, 1981).

“An Interview with Henry Roth - March 1977,” Studies in American
Jewish Literature (Spring 1979).

“Bellowmalamud Roth and the American Jewish Genre—Alive and Well,”
Modern Jewish Studies Annual 3 (1979).

“David Levinsky:  Modern Man as Orphan,” Tulane Studies in English –
special hardbound issue entitled Essays in American Literature of
Memory of Richard P. Adams (Vol. 2, 1978).

“From Dangling Man to ‘Colonies of the Spirit’ in Saul Bellow's Fiction,”
Modern Jewish Studies Annu­al (Vol. 2, 1978).

“’Neither Victim nor Executioner’ in Margaret At­wood's Fiction,” World
Literature Written in English (Spring 1978).

“Introductory Note” to Henry Roth’s  “The Wrong Place,” New Orleans
Review,  Vol. 5, No. 4.

“Delmore Schwartz and the Whole Truth,”  Studies in Short Fiction
(Summer 1977).

“Isaac Rosenfeld's Fiction:  A Reappraisal,” Stud­ies in American Jewish
Literature (Spring 1975).

“Henry Roth's Call it Sleep,” The Explicator (Octo­ber 1974).

“After Call It Sleep,” American Literature (January 1974).

“An Interview with Henry Roth,” Shenandoah (Fall 1973).

“’Broker’:  An Overlooked Story by Henry Roth,” Studies in Short Fiction
(Winter 1973).

“The Symbolic Structure of Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep,” Contemporary
Literature (Spring 1972).

Book Reviews

Joel Shatsky and Michael Taub's Contemporary Jewish-American
Novelists, Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol 17, 1998).

Victoria Aarons's A Measure of Memory, Storytelling and Identity in
American Jewish Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies (Vol. 43, No. 2,
Summer 1997).   

Wallace Markfield's Radical Surgery, The Review of Contemporary
Fiction (Vol. 12, Summer 1992).

Esther Fuch's Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction, Modern Fiction
Studies (Vol. 34, Winter 1988).

Philip Roth's The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 25, Fall 1988).

Joel Salzberg's Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 25, Summer 1988).

Margaret Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 24, Summer 1987).

Harold Brodkey's Women and Angels, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 23,
Fall 1986).

Grace Paley's Later the Same Day, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 22,
Fall 1985).

E.L. Doctorow's Lives of the Poets,  Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 22,
Summer 1985).

Susan Koppelman, Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S.
Women Writers, Studies in Short Fic­tion (Vol. 21, Fall 1984).

Ira Bruce Nadel's Jewish Writers of North America: A Guide to Information
Sources, Religious Studies Review (Vol. 10, Jan. 1984).

Judith Thurman's Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 20, Winter 1983).

Elizabeth Abel, ed. Writing and Sexual  Difference, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 20, Fall 1983).

Maxine Kumin's Why Can't we Live Together Like Civilized Human
Beings?  Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 19, Fall 1982).

Mary Robison's Days, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 19, Spring 1982).

Ella Leffland's Last Courtesies and Other Stories, Stud­ies in Short Fiction
(Vol. 19, Winter 1982).

Nadine Gordimer's A Soldier's Embrace, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 18,
Summer 1981).

Paul Kresh's Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street,
American Jewish History (Vol. 70, Sept. 1980).

Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives, Notre Dame English Journal (Vol. 11,
April 1979).

Rebecca Kavaler's The Further Adventures of Brunhild, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 16, Summer 1979).

Bette Howland's Blue in Chicago, Studies in Short Fic­tion (Vol. 16,
Spring 1979).

Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 3).

Patricia Meyer Spachs' The Female Imagination and Ellen Moer's Literary
Women: Great Writers, New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 3).

Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg's Ashes Out of Hope:  Fiction by
Soviet Jewish Writers, Congress Monthly (November 1977).

Elizabeth Koltun's The Jewish Woman:  New Perspectives, Congress
Monthly (December 1976).

Norman N. Holland's Poems in Persons:  An Introduction to the
Psychoanalysis of Literature and Robert Penn Warren's Democracy and
Poetry, New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 2).

Joseph Cohen's Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg,
1890-1918, New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 2).

Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers, Congress Monthly (March 1976).

Josephine Z. Knopp's Trial of Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Writing,
Congress Monthly (January 1976).

Robert Scheer's America After Nixon:  The Age of the Multi­nationals,
Congress Monthly (October 1975).

Yosef Criden and Saadia Gelb's The Kibbutz Experience, Congress
Monthly (May 1975).