I have reposted here on this site a number of my essays and reviews, originally published elsewhere, that I’d like to preserve:

• “Reverting to Type” (a long autobiographical essay)
• “Choose Life” (about what church might be)
• “Raising Kael” (on Pauline Kael and Citizen Kane)
• “From the Abundance of the Heart”
• “The Devil’s Bargain” (a groping-my-way-forward essay I still think about)
• “On Loren Eiseley”
• A review of Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen of the Road 
• “Against Stupidity”
• Reviews of the sixth and seventh Harry Potter books
• “The Re-invention of Love” (on Anne Carson and Sappho)
• A review of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission
• An assessment of evolutionary accounts of literary art
• An essay on the greatness of Les Murray
• An outline of an anthology I wasn’t allowed to edit
• A review of a delightful book on maps of imaginary worlds 
• An essay-review on dictionaries 
• An essay-review on Auden’s prose
• “Giving Up on Baseball”
• An essay on literary executors
• The introduction to a collection of my essays, in which I think about what the essay is and does
• “The Thrilla In Manila And The End Of Boxing”
• “London Letters” — written by Brett Foster and me
• “Beyond the Wild Wood” — an essay-review on two editions of The Wind in the Willows 

I’ll update this post whenever I add more essays, which I expect to do from time to time.