OK, bad pun, I know. But my Mother Jones profile of NY Times columnist Ross Douthat is now on the web here.

An article about home staging from the New York Times Magazine, in which I get to mention Entourage, the French Laundry, and Giacometti...

Here’s a recent piece for DoubleX.com, the new women’s-interest spinoff from Slate.com. It’s about whether good grammar around children matters. I have, of course, taken the predictable abuse for being a priggish doofus. Which maybe I am.

I was delighted to write my debut piece for the AGNI website, edited by the redoubtable Sven Birkerts, whose book The Gutenberg Elegies I read with great pleasure when I was just out of college. George Scialabba, whose new book I review in the piece, is a very fine critic who is getting more attention these days, although not yet as much as he deserves.

A bit more recently, I wrote my first piece for Tablet, the newly revamped version of what used to be called nextbook.org. It's edited by my friend Alana Newhouse, and I shall only say that any magazine that has hired both Seth Lipsky and Victor Navasky as columnists is big-tent in admirable way. My piece, FYI, is about Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites, people with whom I have spent not a little time lately...

In the “win” category, there is the new book by former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell, which I review very favorably; in the “lose” category, there is the unfortunate new novel (which I review here) by Glen David Gold, whose first novel was the masterful Carter Beats the Devil.