OTHER WRITING“An Orgy of Musical Sustenance at WHRB,” Boston Sunday Globe, December 8, 2024 “Nelson Rockefeller’s Other Woman—and Me” Boston Sunday Globe, November 3, 2024 “Free For A While,” Harvard Review 59, Summer 2022 “Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World,” Literary Hub, October 29, 2021. “Without,” Harvard Review Online, posted September 21, 2021 "Remembering Lois Palken Rudnick: A Biographer Who Never Stopped Exploring," Literary Hub, September 13, 2021 “Amaryllis,” Plume Poetry June 2021. Read Marshall’s account of how the poem came to be written here. Megan Marshall remembers Scott Harney, excerpt from Marshall’s introduction to The Blood of San Gennaro, LitHub, October 21, 2020 Megan Marshall remembers biographer Robert D. Richardson, Literary Hub, July 10, 2020 “What My Grandfather Saw Photographing the 1919 Typhus Epidemic in Poland,” “Chalk Talk,” a short essay on children’s messages written on the sidewalks of Belmont and Cambridge, Massachusetts, under shelter-in-place orders, April 2020, Arrowsmith Journal 8. “Place of Rest,” an essay on walking in Mt. Auburn cemetery in our time of contagion, Arrowsmith Journal 7, March-April 2020. “The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War,” – Reading my grandfather’s letters on the centenary of the Armistice – NewYorker.com November 10, 2018. "Nostalgia" Vogue, March 2017 issue. “The Mouse That Scored,” AGNI blog, posted February 27, 2017 “On Margaret Fuller and Woman in the Twenty-First Century,” The New Yorker online, November 15, 2016 “Elizabeth and Alice: The Last Love Affair of Elizabeth Bishop and the Losses Behind ‘One Art’” The New Yorker online, October 27, 2016. “Biography Without Modifiers,” Pulitzer Centennial website, June 2016 From the New York Times Book Review“The Reawakening,” review of O My America! by Sarah Wheeler, October 27, 2013. “Breaking New Ground,” review of The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine—Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary by Jenny Uglow, February 3, 2013.“Dark Hours,” review of What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam, April 22, 2012. “American Heiresses on the World Stage,” review of Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad by Jehanne Wake, April 10, 2011. “The Voyager,” review of The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville, by Jay Parini, November 28, 2010. “Return of the King,” review of A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game, by Jenny Uglow, January 10, 2010. “John Singer Sargent’s Model Children,” review of Sargent’s Daughters: A Biography of a Painting, by Erica Hirshler, December 13, 2009. “Married With Children,” review of We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals, by Gillian Gill, June 21, 2009. “A Life Less Ordinary,” review of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley, “The King’s Bed,” review of Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser, October 15, 2006. “He Wrote the Words,” review of The Librettist of Venice by Rodney Bolt, July 30, 2006 “War Correspondence,” review of Blood and Roses by Helen Castor, May 7, 2006. “Women’s Ways of Knowing,” review of A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight, “His Brilliant Friends,” review of The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden, January 1, 2006. From Slate.com“Hey, Mr. Postman: Why e-mail can never replace the letter,” review of Thomas Mallon’s Yours Ever: People and Their Letters, posted December 7, 2009. “The Impossible Art of Deciphering Manuscripts,” slate.com posted February 8, 2008. “The Women’s History Boom: Transforming a Profession from the Inside,” review of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, posted September 4, 2007. “The Spirit of the Letter: What biographers find in other people’s mail,” posted May 17, 2005. Miscellaneous:
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