- "'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 (July 2010)
- "Cleopatra's Comeback", The Daily Beast (June 2010)
- Book review of Yours Ever—People and their Letters, by Thomas Mallon, The New York Times (November 2009)
- "Who's Buried in Cleopatra's Tomb?", The New York Times (April 2009)
- "'Ulysses' Without the Guilt", The 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", The 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, The New York Times (April 2003)
- Interview, Pennsylvania State University (1999)
- "Annals of Domesticity: The Runaway Mother", The New Yorker, (November 10, 1997)
- Byliner.com - An online archive of additional stories and essays by Stacy