Vogue: "My Hope for Mayor Mamdani"
January 2026
June 2019
The New York Times: "In Praise of bell hooks"
February 2019
Literary Hub: "Love in the New World"
November 2017
The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, ed. by Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner:
"What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love"
May 2012
The New York Times Magazine: "Low Tide"
February 2012
Vogue: "Up Front: After the Earthquake"
April 2011
Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex, ed. by Erica Jong: "Reticence and Fieldwork"
June 2011
November 2010
Chosun Ilbo: “‘한국 청년들, 지금 그대로도 충분히 멋지다’ [‘Korean Young People Are Cool Enough as They Are Now’]”
May 2010
Chosun Ilbo: “한국 브랜드엔 충성할 미국인 있나 [Are There Any Americans Who Will Be Loyal to Korean Brands?]"
March 2010
The Wall Street Journal: "My Korean New Year"
January 2010
Chosun Ilbo: “승리하는 팀 [The Winning Team]"
December 2009
Chosun Ilbo: “‘사는 게 행복한가요?" [‘Are You Happy?']"
October 2009
Chosun Ilbo: “진짜 교육 [The Real Education]"
September 2009
Chosun Ilbo: “126년 묵은 사랑의 빚 88달러 [88 Dollars Debt of Affection That Lasted for 126 Years]”
June 2009
Travel + Leisure: "Reading the World"
April 2009
Chosun Ilbo: “질투와 자부심 [Jealousy and Pride]"
March 2009
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love, ed. by Rebecca Walker:
"Like Family"
February 2009
Food & Wine: "Why Star Chefs Revere Meiji Yamamoto"
September 2008
Essay in Why I'm A Democrat, ed. by Susan Mulcahy
July 2008
April 2008
November 2007
Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, ed. by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender:
"Will"
May 2001
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, ed. by Rebecca Walker:
"Pushing Away the Plate"
October 1995
February 2022
February 2018
The Times of London: "Review: March Was Made of Yarn, ed. by David Karashima and Elmer Luke"
March 2012
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works, ed. by Shelley Fisher Fishkin:
March 2010
The Times of London: Review: Susie Orbach's Bodies
January 2009
"The Best Girls," Amazon Original Stories, Disorder Series
June 2019
"Motherland," The Missouri Review
December 2017 (reissued from Spring 2002)
Excerpt from Pachinko, Literary Hub
February 2017
"The Quality of Your Life," One Story
November 2016
Excerpt from Free Food for Millionaires, Narrative
Fall 2010
"In Common," Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, ed. by Robert Swartwood
November 2010
Excerpt from Free Food for Millionaires, The New York Times
July 2007
Excerpt from Free Food for Millionaires, USA Today
"Axis of Happiness," Narrative
Fall 2003