"The Meeting Place of Poets,""The Surrealist Impulse, "Letters at Mourning," and "Writing Picasso" in Picasso and the Allure of Language, ed. Susan Greenberg Fisher, Yale University Press
"Unica Zürn: Beyond Bizarre" for Unica Zürn: Dark Spring (Drawing Papers 86), The Drawing Center
"Dora et Pablo,", essay for the Alde auction house catalogue "Quelque souvenirs de Dora Maar," sale held June 8, 2009 in Paris
"Wilhelm Freddie: Againstness Wins Out," in the catalogue for the exhibit Wilhelm Freddie, at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Feb-June 2009
Translation of "Sans Récompense," an essay by Jean-François Chevrier to accompany "Vides (Voids)" at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg), February 2009
2008
"Why is she in tears? Mary Ann Caws unravels the sorrowful tale behind Picasso's Weeping Woman, acquired by Tate with Art Fund help twenty years ago,"Art Quarterly, Focus: Beauty and Cruelty issue (Winter 2008)
"In the surrealist light: André Breton," in Poems of André Breton (ed. Jean-Pierre Cauvin & Caws), Black Widow Press, 200, p. 1-10
"Picassomania" (review of Elizabeth Cowling's edition of
Visiting Picasso by Roland Penrose), London Review of Books, October 19, 2006 (vol. 28 no. 20)
article on Proust in the Memories issue of .Cent Magazine, Spring 2006 (Issue 6)
"Walking (Even Now) With Carolyn,"The Scholar and Feminist Online, vol. 4 no. 2 (Writing a Feminist's Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun), Spring 2006
article on Dora Maar in Fashion Quarterly, March 16, 2006
"Masterpiece: It Started With A Madeleine," in the Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2006
"Cards on the Table" (review of Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley), London Review of Books, June 3 (vol. 26 no. 11)
art catalogue, Hedda Sterne: From Then to Now, Mark Borghi Fine Art (Bridgehampton, NY), May, 2004
"Carolyn's Reading These Last Days," (response to Carolyn Heilbrun's last essay, "Rereading"), PMLA, March, 2004
2003
"There's More To France Than a Veto Threat,"Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2003
"Retranslation and its Surrealist Delights,"Modernism and Translation, ed. Adam Piette, Edinburgh University Press, 2003
"Bonnefoy traduit Yeats," in Yves Bonnefoy et l'Europe du XXe Siecle, ed. Micele Finck, Daniel Lancon and Mayse Staiber, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2003
"Traduire Ostinato,"Critique, Louis-René des Forêts issue, Janvier-Fevrier, 2003
"An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray," in On Fashion, ed. Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss, Rutgers University Press, 1994
"Dancing with Mallarmé and Seurat (and Loie Fuller and La Goulue)," in Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (ed. Peter Collier and Robert Lethbridge), Yale University Press, 1994.
"Joseph Cornell,""Kurt Schwitters,""Adami," in Contemporary Masterworks, St. James Press, 1991
"L'Invention de l'amour / l'amour de l'invention," in Études françaises, vol. 26 no. 3 (Inventions, ed. Christie McDonald), 1991
"Le Moi dans le Surrealisme," publications of the French Institute, Bonn, 1991
"Selections from the Diary of Joseph Cornell" (editor), Arts Magazine, April, 1991
"Ruskin's Madness and Ours,"Victorian Literature and Culture, 1991
"Cognitive Poetics and Passionate Reading in Ruskin and Hopkins,"Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, no. 3, 1991
"Personal Criticism and the Margins of Poetry," in Visions of the Other / Visions de l'autre, ed. Margaret R. Higonnet and Sumie Jones, in the Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 1991
"Joseph Cornell: l'invention de la boîte surréaliste,"Études françaises, 1990
"Under-Reading at Noon, 'Midi,' with Leconte de Lisle," in Nineteenth Century French Poetry, ed. Christopher Prendergast, Cambridge University Press, 1990
"Livre des marges, Livre du partage : méditation sur deux textes d'Edmond Jabès," in Écrire le livre autour d'Edmond Jabès, Editions de la Montagne, 1989
1988
"Truth-Telling and the Fictions of Humor," in Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy, ed. Regina Barreca, Gordon and Breach, 1988
"Artful Mosaic: Proust Recalled with a Kierkegaardian Twist,"Style, Fall 1988 (vol. 22 no. 3)
"Le genre dialogué: Blaise Cendrars et 'l'autre,"Sud, 1988.
"Strong-Line Poetry: Ashbery's Dark Edging and the Lines of Self," in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Robert Frank and Henry Sayre, University of Illinois Press, 1988
"Gestures Toward the Self: Representing the Body in Modernism; Cloaking, Re-Membering, and the Elliptical Effect," in Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, ed. Monique Chefdor, Ricardo Quinones, and Albert Wachtel, University of Illinois Press, 1986
"The Conception of Engendering / The Erotics of Editing," in The Poetics of Gender, ed. Nancy K. Miller, Columbia University Press, 1986
"Whatever is Fitting in a Text (On Being Buttoned in a Scene)," in
Intertextuality: New Perspectives in Criticism, ed. Jeanine Parisier Plottel and Hanna Charney, New York Literary Forum, 1978
"Robert Desnos and the Flasks of Night,"Yale French Studies,
no. 50, 1974
