- My Summer as an International Book Scout — Derek Neal's Newsletter, September 2025
On the publishing industry
- Practice v. Theory: The Final Round — The Republic of Letters, May 2025
On Bruno Latour
- Practice v. Theory: A Smackdown — The Republic of Letters, April 2025
On Stanley Fish
- Canada Is Not for Sale vs Make America Great Again — Derek Neal's Newsletter, March 2025
On political messaging
- All In Against Efficiency — 3 Quarks Daily, December 2024
On podcasts and language
- Election Night Diary — 3 Quarks Daily, November 2024
A series of conversations
- Is Art a Form of Therapy? — 3 Quarks Daily, April 2024
On art and the therapeutic
- Joy in Repetition — 3 Quarks Daily, April 2024
On repetition in art
- My Translation of the Epilogue To Alberto Moravia's Boredom — Derek Neal's Newsletter, January 2024
On translation
- Why Do I Keep Writing the Same Essay Again and Again? — 3 Quarks Daily, January 2024
On Schrader, Modiano, Sontag, and Roth
- More Thoughts on Boredom, Moravia, Sontag, and Schrader — 3 Quarks Daily, December 2023
On the aesthetic qualities of boredom
- Fiction on a Screen; or, Get an iPad — Derek Neal's Newsletter, December 2023
On reading digitally
- Notes Towards a Collection of Essays on Americans in Europe — 3 Quarks Daily, October 2023
On representations of Americans
- Stoicism Just Won’t Go Away — 3 Quarks Daily, June 2023
On stoicism
- Oh No, Not Another Essay on ChatGPT — 3 Quarks Daily, May 2023
On ChatGPT, orality, and literacy
- The Sad Prince — 3 Quarks Daily, February 2023
On Prince Harry and the figure of the American
- The Technology of Writing: From the Essay to GPT-3 — 3 Quarks Daily, December 2022
On ChatGPT, orality, and literacy
- A Brief Overview of Some Words I Can’t Stand — 3 Quarks Daily, October 2022
On language
- Paradiso — 3 Quarks Daily, July 2022
On music and Italy
- Writing About Music — 3 Quarks Daily, May 2022
On translating music into words
- What to Eat, Part 2 — 3 Quarks Daily, March 2022
On visual representations of food
- What to Eat — 3 Quarks Daily, February 2022
On visual representations of food
- Year in Review — 3 Quarks Daily, January 2022
On a year in reading
- Who Needs Grammar Anyway? — 3 Quarks Daily, November 2021
On teaching English
- Some Thoughts on Language — 3 Quarks Daily, October 2021
On Metal Gear Solid V