- *White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch* (2009)
- *Real Men Wear Dresses* (2009)
- *New Bohemia: Life, Art & Sex in the Beat Hotel 1957-1963* (2012)
- *The Life of Art: Caravaggio* (2014)
- *The Life of Art: Frida Kahlo* (2015)
- *The Life of Art: Vincent Van Gogh* (2015)
- *Pop Pilgrims* (2020)
Contributions
- "An Afternoon with Lucian Freud" (1995), *Modern Painters*
- "An Interview with Francis Bacon" (1985), *Studio International*
- "The Real Mr. X" (1985), *Art Monthly*
- "Warhol vs. Basquiat" (2009), *The Observer*
- "The King of Bohemia: The Beat Generation, Bob Dylan, and the '60s" (2012), *The Daily Beast*
- "The Last Beat: Allen Ginsberg's Final Years" (2015), *The Wall Street Journal*
- "Caravaggio: The Original Bad Boy of Art" (2014), *The Daily Beast*
- "Frida Kahlo: The Unforgettable, Unforgiving Painter of Pain and Pleasure" (2015), *The Daily Beast*
- "Vincent Van Gogh: The Madness, the Genius, and the Myth" (2015), *The Daily Beast*
- "Why Populism is Popular" (2018), *The New York Times*
- "The World According to the Beastie Boys" (2019), *The New York Times*
- "The Rise and Fall of Andy Warhol's Factory" (2020), *The New Yorker*