Travel articles:

Aegean Sea's Island of Marble, The New York Times 1/19/92.

Delos: Greek Isle Deserted by All but Grandeur, The Los Angeles Times, 4/26/92

Memorial to an Uncivil Era: A Personal Journey to Alabama's new Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, The Los Angeles Times, 4/11/93.
Reprinted in Reading Our Lives: Southern Autobiography Anthology, Auburn University Center for the Arts & Humanities, 1997.

On the Greek Isle of Delos, Apollo Lives, The Washington Post, 3/15/92.

Slow Days on Sanibel Island, The Los Angeles Times, 5/2/93.

Essays:

Poe vs Himself: The Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Literary Hub. July 24, 2023.

Space Races. Editions Bibliotekos. Feb. 13, 2023.

Soldier, Sailor. The Courtship of Winds. Summer 2022.

Soldier, Sailor: Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters. August 2021.

The Imp of the Perverse. The Courtship of Winds. Summer 2021.

The Imp of the Perverse: Edgar Allan Poe's Misplaced Youth. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters. November 2020. 

Nancy Mairs: Transformative Power. The American Voice. no.22, Spring 1991.

Miss Don and Miss Praytor. The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature,.January 2009.

Poe vs. Himself. New England Review vol.39, no.1, 2018.

Poe and Chivers. The Courtship of Winds. Summer 2020.

Poe and Chivers. Masque and Spectacle. March 1, 2020.

Poe and Chivers. Rascal Journal. Issue 2, December 2017.

With David Castronovo:
Jacob Landau: Edmund Wilson's Jewish Ambassador, Forward, 11/6/92.

Reflection: Edmund Wilson: Combat and Comradeship, Shofar, Vol.16, no.3, Spring 1998, 132-38.

Other articles:

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Tribute, East Village Eye. New York, April 1986.

Witchcraft. Cobblestone. Peterborough, NH, October 1986.

William Faulkner. Cobblestone. Peterborough, NH, Feb. 1988.

Feature articles for Columbia:
The Bookmakers of Broadway (on Columbia University Press). December 1983.

The Learning Center and H.E.O.P. Helps, July 1983.

A Romance with History (on Washington Irving). April 1983.

Rare Pleasures (on Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, lead article). Fall 1979.

Interview:

Stanley Kunitz, An Interview with Stanley Kunitz with Cleopatra Mathis, Anne Cherner [Whitehouse], and Elmaz Abinader. Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, Fall 1977.

Readers Guides for the Franklin Library:
Henry James, Seven Tales; George Eliot, Scenes from Clerical Life; Oscar Wilde, Stories and Fairy Tales; St. Augustine, The City of God; Sir Isaac Newton, Principia and Optics; Christian Huygens, Wave Theory of Light.