Essays by Stacy Schiff

"Véra Nabokov Was the First and Greatest Champion of "Lolita": The New Yorker (March 2021)
"Anger: An American History,": New York Times (December 2015)
"First, Kill the Witches. Then, Celebrate Them.": New York Times (October 2015)
"The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village": The New Yorker (September 2015)
Book review of Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, by Hermione Lee: New York Times (November 2014)
"'Voltaire in Love': An Ardent, Intellectual Affair": NPR's "You Must Read This" (January 2011)
"Indelible Portraits of Women's Lives": The Wall Street Journal (December 2010)
"Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance": New York Times (December 2010)
Goddess, Queen, Celebrity: 11 Iconic Images Of Cleopatra And Why They're Wrong: Huffington Post (November 2010)
"Will the Real Cleopatra Please Stand Up?": W (October 2010)
"Still Under Cleopatra's Spell": The Wall Street Journal (October 2010)
Faber Finds: Harold Nicolson's Some People: Faber (July 2010)
"Cleopatra's Comeback": The Daily Beast (June 2010)
Book review of Yours Ever—People and their Letters, by Thomas Mallon: New York Times (November 2009)
"Who's Buried in Cleopatra's Tomb?": New York Times (April 2009)
"'Ulysses' Without the Guilt": New York Times (February 2007)
"One Latte, Hold the Milk": The New York Times (February 2007)
Book review of Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman, by Francine du Plessix Gray: Slate (November 2008)
"We'll Always Have Paris": Gourmet (August 2005) [PDF]
"One Nation, With Niches for All": New York Times (June 2005)
"Four Centuries and a Cloud of Dust": The New York Times (February 2005)
"Saint-Exupéry Lands at Last": The New York Times (April 2004)
Book review of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children, by Ann Hulbert: New York Times (April 2003)
Interview: Pennsylvania State University (1999)
"Annals of Domesticity: The Runaway Mother": The New Yorker (November 1997)
Byliner.com: An online archive of additional stories and essays by Stacy