“Hyderabad in Five Colors,” for the New York Review of Books blog, September 5, 2013
“The Value of Suffering,” an essay for The New York Times, September 8, 2013
“Why I Love the National Geographic”–The Guardian, December 8, 2013;
“Proust, The Accidental Buddhist”–New York Review of Books blog, December 24, 2013
“The City at the Center of the World,” a review of Russell Shorto’s Amsterdam–New York Times Book Review, December 29, 2013
A review of Hanif Kureishi’s novel about V.S. Naipaul, The Last Word–Prospect, February 2014
A piece on Leonard Cohen at the 92nd Street Y, New York, Valentine Day’s 1966—Harpers.com, February 2014.
“The Beauty of the Package”—an essay on a Japanese wedding, in Granta, February 2014.