Poetry
“Dear Mother VI” and “For the Tired Ones” in On the Seawall
“On Not Seeing the Hopper Exhibit at the Whitney” in Rust & Moth
“New Year’s 2023” in Cider Press Review
“To Someone on the Internet Who Wants to Know Why Academics Use the Word Body So Much” in Dialogist
“Mama Dough,” in Anti-Heroin Chic
“The Night Diana Died,” in Philadelphia Stories
“O’Hare Airport at Midnight,” in Trampoline
“Little Grief Song (July 2020)” in Cleaver
“An Incomplete List of Place I Breastfed My Second Child,” in Rattle
“Ode to Margaret Dumont,” in Catamaran Literary Journal
“At the Frick” in Juked
“Some Facts about My Father,” “House #3 (Francesca Woodman)” and “Natural Childbirth” in Aji
“Hitler’s Bathtub” in Narrative
“Light Blue Nursery” in Aji
Fiction
“In Laws,” in Cleaver Magazine
“Birding for Beginners,” in Entropy Magazine
“The Airport and the Museum,” in Cleaver Magazine
“Unknowing” in Monkeybicycle
“Sixteen” in SmokeLong Quarterly
“Middle-Aged Men on Planes” ” in failbetter
Author Interviews
“We Have to Tell Larger Stories” Interview with Ravi Mangla, in the Forge.
“Our System Is Not Doing the Thing It Says It Intends to Do: Deliver Justice”. Interview with Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, in Jacobin.
Essays
“Grading During – and Beyond – COVID,” co-written with Kristen Gallagher, in Hybrid Pedagogy.
“The Grief Syllabus,” in Entropy.
“Ann Snitow (1943-2019),” in Jacobin.
“The Appeal and Limits of Andrea Dworkin,” in Jacobin.
“Philip Roth (1933-2018),” in Jacobin.
“How ‘No More Miss America” Announced a Feminist Upheaval”, co-authored with Mark Engler, in The Nation.
“No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action,” co-authored with Mark Engler, in Dissent.
“Kate Millett: (1934-2017),” in Jacobin.
“Help Wanted: Female,” co-authored with Mark Engler, in The New Republic.
When Women Revolted, co-authored with Mark Engler, in Waging Non-Violence.
This Day in Feminist History: Johnnie Tillmon, in Dissent.
“Mad Men and the Movement,” in Jacobin.
“Mad Men in a Mad World” in Jacobin.
“Just Read Alison Bechdel” in Dissent.
“My Brooklyn, Not Yours” in Jacobin.
“On Anger and ‘Meaning It'” in Jacobin.
“The Problem of Sex” in Jacobin.
“Looking at Betty Draper” in Open Letters Monthly
Book Reviews
“How Kathy Acker Stayed Radical,” in The New Republic. Review of Jason McBride, Eat Your Mind
“Michelle Tea’s Punk Parenting Memoir,” in The New Republic. Review of Michelle Tea, Knocking Myself Up.
“With The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan Wants to Revitalize Feminism,” in Jacobin. Review of Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex.
“A Feminism that Means Something,” in Jacobin. Review of Dorothy Sue Cobble, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality.
“Rose Pastor Stokes Was More Than a Celebrity — She Was a Working-Class Hero” in Jacobin. Review of Adam Hochschild, Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches The Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.
“The Humanity of American Communism,” in Jacobin. Review of Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism.
“The Radical James Baldwin,” in Jacobin. Review of James Baldwin: Living in Fire.
“An Ode to Sharp-Tongued Women, From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sontag,” in In These Times. Review of Michelle Dean, Sharp.
“The Parties Were Hell,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Natalie Robins, The Untold Journey: the Life of Diana Trilling.
“A New Memoir from the Author of Whip Smart Explores Her Family Origins,” in The New York Times Book Review. Review of Melissa Febos, Abandon Me.
“How Radicals Can Help Each Other,” in The New Republic. Review of Sheila Rowbotham, Rebel Crossings.
“In Michelle Tea’s New Novel, Bohemians Meet the Apocalypse,” in The New York Times. Review of Michelle Tea, Black Wave.
“The Books that Made them Feminists,” in The New Republic. Review of Kristen Hogan, The Feminist Bookstore Movement.
“Echoes of Narcissus,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Kristin Dombek, The Selfishness of Others.
“Slow March to Surprising Victories,” Review of Mark Engler and Paul Engler, This is an Uprising in Democratic Left.
“Kindling the Mob,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Therese Svoboda, Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet.
“A Book as Big as Life,” in Dissent. Review of Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire.
“Kafka with a Happy Ending,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Miranda July, The First Bad Man.
“A Walker in the City” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Julie Hayden, The Lists of the Past.
“The Personal was Always the Political” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Vivian Gornick, Emma Goldman.
“When the Sewing Needles Dropped,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Anne Roiphe, Art and Madness.
“02,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Courtney Sullivan, Commencement.
“All the Sad Old Men,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life.
“Soothing the Elites,” in Open Letters Monthly. Review of Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas.
Academic Writing
“Internationalizing America: Critical Pedagogy in the Multinational Community College Classroom” in The International Journal in Critical Pedagogy
“‘Did anyone ever truly decide?”: Rereading Cultural Feminism through the Patty Hearst Case” in The Sixties.
Dear Ms. Tanenbaum,
I was looking for reviews of “City on Fire,” when I found the one you wrote for Dissent magazine. It was a great piece–esp these sentences here:
“The scene distills the novel’s humane liberalism: the vision or the hope for peaceful reconciliation between the era’s radicals and the coming conservative tide. As a literary vision, liberalism falters because rather than reconciling dramatic conflict, it suggests there never really was a conflict.”
I haven’t actually read the novel yet, I confess, since it hasn’t yet come to stores in the country where I live. But I’m trusting you on this one.
Thanks! Honestly as I’m sure you can sense from my piece while it has it’s moments there are lots of novels that will better reward your time. IF you’re looking for other books about NYC, I love “Man Gone Down” and “Chango’s Fire,” – I had these recommendations in there as doing what Hallberg couldn’t do, but it got cut from the final version. Thanks for reading.
Hi Laura,
I get the daily Rattle email and read your AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF PLACES I HAVE BREASTFED MY SECOND CHILD, then read more of your work on your website, loved both this breastfeeding poem, your piece about childbirth and wanted to ask you to share poetry with me. Although I’ve published some in journals, I’m interested in finding poets to be in conversation with through my work and I feel, in some respects, that my work is in conversation with your work. I know you probably have many poets already that you share work with, but would you consider reading my stuff and seeing if our poems can “talk to each other.”
Hi Jessica – Thank you for your message which I just saw now and for your kind words about my poem. I’d love to chat and possibly exchange work – you can reach out to me at Laura.tanenbaum@gmail.com
Thank you for writing The Grief Syllabus. My father died in October of 2019. As I keep looking for words and scribing my memories of him, you prompt me also to thoughtfully attend to my mother who is living. Thank you.
Hi Heather –
Thank you so much for your kind words about the piece. I’m glad it was helpful to you. I’m sorry for the loss of your father; may his memory be for a blessing.