Ontologiia liubvi: Edem v "Pesne pesnei" (Ontology of Love: Eden in "The Song of Songs"). Zvezda, 2008, No.3.

Dobro i zlo v zerkale russkogo iazyka (Good and Evil in the Mirror of Russian language).  Kontinent, 132 (July 2007), Moscow, 25 pp.

O tvorcheskom potentsiale russkogo iazyka. Grammatika perekhodnosti i tranzitivnoe obshchestvo (On the Creative Potential of Russian Language: The Grammar of Transitivity and the Society in Transition).  Znamia (Moscow), No.3, 2007, 193-207.

Teologiia Knigi Iova (The Theology of the Book of Job). Zvezda, 12, 2006, 191 ­ 199.

O dushevnosti (On the Qualities of Soul).Zvezda, 8, 2006, pp. 208-216.

Liubovnye imena: vvedenie v erotonimiku. Statia-poema (Love Names: An Introduction to Erotonymics). Oktiabr',  No. 7, 2006,  pp. 153-173.

K estetike liubvi: Talanty, zhanry, stili (Toward the Aesthetics of Love: Talents, Genres, Styles).  Zvezda,  No. 6, 2006, 209 ­ 218.

K filosofii vozrasta: Fraktal'nost' zhizni i periodicheskaia tablitsa vozrastov. (Toward the Philosophy of Age. The Fractality of Life and the Periodic Table of Ages).  Zvezda,  No. 4, 2006, 200-211.

Nulevoi tsikl stoletiia. Eksplozivnyi stil' 2000-x (The Zero Cycle of the Century: The Explosive Style of the 2000s). Zvezda,  No. 2, 2006, 210-217.

Chetyre slagaemykh liubvi (Four Constituents of Love).  Chelovek, 2006, 2, 82-96.

Russkii iazyk v svete tvorcheskoi filologii (Russian Language in the Light of Creative Philology).  Znamia (Moscow), No.1, 2006,  192-207.

Edipov kompleks sovetskoii tsivilizatsii.(The Oedipus Complex of Soviet Civilization). Novyi mir  (Moscow),  No.1, 2006, 113-126.

Slovo i molchanie v russkoi kul'ture (Word and Silence in Russian Culture). Zvezda (St.-Petersburg), No.10, 2005,  202-222.

Tret'e filosofskoe probuzhdenie (1960e ­ 1980e). (The Third Philosophical Awakening: (1960s ­ 1980s)).  Kontinent (Moscow), No. 122, 2004, 338-356.

Virtual'nye knigi (Virtual Books). Zvezda, 2004, No.8, 218-234.

Govorit li filosofiia po-russki (Does Philosophy Speak Russian?). Nota Bene (Jerusalem), No.1, 2004,   209-221.

Poetika blizosti (The Poetics of Intimacy). Zvezda,  2003, No.1, 155-176.

Zametki po erotologii (Notes on Erotology). Kommentarii, Moscow,  No.23, 2003, 5-45.

Zametki o chetvertoj mirovoi (Notes on the Fourth World War). Zvezda, 2002, No.5, 203-214.

Amerossiia. Dvukul'turie i svoboda. Rech' pri poluchenii premii "Liberty" (Amerossia: Biculturalism and Liberty. A Speech at the Reception of Liberty Prize, New York, December 2000). Zvezda, 2001, No.7, 221-227.

Mistika upakovki, ili Vvedenie v tegimenologiiu. (Mysticism of Packing: An Introduction to Tegimenology). Kommentarii (Moscow - St.-Petersburg), No.20, 2001, 249-261.

Debut de siecle, ili  Ot Post- k Proto-. Manifest novogo veka (Début de Siecle, or From Post-  to Proto-:  A Manifesto for a New Century). Znamia, No.5,  2001, 180-198.
    Reprinted in Russkaia literatura 20 veka v zerkale kritiki. Khrestomatia. (Russian Literature of the 20th c. in the Mirror of Criticism: Reader). Moscow, S.-Petersburg: Academia, 2003, 144-174.

Debut de siecle, ili Ot Post- k Proto-. Manifest novogo veka (Début de Siecle, or From Post- to Proto-: A Manifesto for a New Century). Znamia, No.5, 2001.

Ateizm kak dukhovnoe prizvanie. Iz arkhivov Prof. R. O. Gibaidulinoi (Atheism as a Spiritual Calling: From the Archives of Professor R. O. Gibaidulina). Zvezda, No.4, 2001.

Ot Interneta k InteLnetu (From Internet to InteLnet), in Rossiiskii internet: Nakanune bol'shikh peremen (Russian Internet: On the Eve of Large Changes). Moscow: IREX, 2000, 196-204.

Slovo kak proizvedenie: O zhanre odnosloviia (A Word as a Work of Art: On the genre of 'one word'). Novyi mir, 2000, No.9, 204-215.

Odnoslovie kak literaturnyj zhanr (A Word as a Literarary Genre). Kontinent (Moscow-Paris), No. 104, 2000, 279-313.

Khronotsid. Prolog k voskresheniiu vremeni (Chronocide: A Prologue to the Resurrection of Time). Oktiabr', 2000, No.7, 157-171.

Khasid i Talmudist. Sravnitel'nyi opyt o Pasternake i Mandel'shtame" (A Khasid and a Talmudist: A Comparative Essay on Pasternak and Mandelshtam). Zvezda, 2000, No. 4, 82-96.

Informatsionnyi vzryv i travma postmodernizma. (The Informational Explosion and the Trauma of Postmodernism). Zvezda, 1999, No. 11, 216 - 228.

Kniga, zhdushchaia avtorov (The Book Waiting for Its Authors). Inostrannaia literatura (Moscow), 1999, No.5, 217-228.

Russkaia kul'tura na rasput'ie. Sekuliarizatsiia i perekhod ot dvoichnoi modeli k troichnoi (Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Secularization and Transition from the Binary Model to the Ternary). Zvezda(S.-Petersburg), 1999, No. 1, 202-220; No. 2, 155-176.

"Iz totalitarnoi epokhi - v virtual'nuiu: vvedenie v Knigi knig" (From the Totalitarian Epoch to the Virtual One: Introduction into the Book of books). Kontinent, No.102, 1999, 355-366.

Ivan Solovyov. Messianskie rechi (Messianic Discourses). Publication and preface by Mikhail Epstein. Oktiabr' (Moscow), 1998, No.7, 148-167.

"Internet kak slovesnost'" (Internet as Literature). Pushkin (Moscow),#1 (6-7), May 1, 1998, 44-46.

"Sinyavsky kak Myslitel'" (Sinyavsky as a Thinker). Zvezda (S.-Petersburg), 1998, No. 2, 151-171.

" [probel]               " Nabroski k ekologii teksta ("   [blank space]                " Toward the ecology of text). Kommentarii. Moscow-St.-Petersburg, No. 13, 1997, 3-41.

"Post-ateizm, ili Bednaia religiia" (Post-atheism, or Minimal Religion). Oktiabr' 1996, No.9, 158-165.

"Istoki i smysl russkogo postmodernizma" (The genesis and significance of Russian postmodernism). Zvezda, 1996, No.8,166-188.

"Poeziia kak sostoianie. Iz stikhov i zametok Ivana Solovyova. Publikatsiia i predislovie Mixaila Epshteina" (Poetry as a State-of-being. From the poems and notes of Ivan Solovyov. Publication and preface by Mikhail Epstein). Novyi mir, No. 8, 1996, 230-240.

"Mednyi vsadnik i zolotaia rybka. Poema-skazka Pushkina" (The Bronze Horseman and the Goldfish. The Epic Poem and the Fairy Tale by Pushkin). Znamia, No. 6, 1996, 204-215.

"Proto-, ili Konets postmodernizma" (Proto-, or The End of Postmodernism). Znamia, No. 3, 1996, 196-209.

"Posle karnavala, ili Vechnyi Venichka" (After the Carnival, or Eternal Venedikt Erofeev), Introduction to the book: Venedikt Erofeev. Ostav'te moiu dushu v pokoe: Pochti vsyo. M., Izd-vo AO "X.G.S.", 1995, 3-30.

Vozmozhnye miry Epshteina (The Possible Worlds of Epstein). Interview (by Ira Vrubel'-Golubkina, Aleksandr Gol'dshtein, Mikhail Grobman, recorded by A.Gol'dshtein). Zerkalo, No. 129, Tel Aviv, October 1995, 18-24.

"Poety - rifmy. Lermontov i Pasternak: mudrost' leta. Gyolderlin i Batiushkov: svet bezumiia" (Poets-rhymes. Lermontov and Pasternak: The Wisdom of Summer. Holderlin and Batiushkov: The Light of Madness). Strelets (Paris-Moscow-New-York). 2 (74), 1994, 198-207.

"Esse ob esse" (An Essay on Essay). Opyty. Zhurnal Esseistiki. Publikatsii, Retsenzii, Khroniki. No. 1. St.-Petersburg-Paris, 1994, 23-26.

"Roza Mira i Tsarstvo Antikhrista: o paradoksakh russkoi eskhatologii" (The Rose of the World and the Kingdom of the Antichrist: On the Paradoxes of Russian Eschatology). Kontinent (Moscow-Paris), No.79, 1994 (1), 283-332.

"Pustota kak priem. Slovo i izobrazhenie u Ilyi Kabakova" (Emptiness as a Device: Verbal and Visual Representations in Ilya Kabakov). Oktiabr', 1993, No.10, 177-192.

"Narod i nenarod. O natsional'nom i sotsial'nom v sovremennoj Rossii" (The People and Non-People. On the National and the Social in Contemporary Russia), Zvezda, 1993 (1), 183-193.

"Razmyshleniia Ivana Solovyova ob Erose" (Ivan Solovyov’s Reflections on Eros), Chelovek (Moscow), 1991, No.1,195-212.

"Iskusstvo avangarda i religioznoe soznanie" (Art of Avant-Garde and Religious Consciousness), Novyi Mir, l989, No. l2, 222-235 (transl. into Serbo-Croatian: "Tvo Ruske Avangarde," Knjizevna Kritika, 1990, No.1, 85-96).

"Oblomov i Korchagin"  (Oblomov and Korchagin). Vremia i my (New York), No. 109, 1990, 141-160.

"Kontsepty. . . Metaboly. . . O novykh techeniiakh v poezii" (Concepts. . . Metaboles. . . On New Currents in Poetry), Oktiabr', l988, No. 4, l94-203; also in collection Vzgliad: kritika, polemika, publikatsii, Moscow, 1988, 171-196.

"Mif i chelovek. O khudozhestvennykh vozmozhnostiakh sovremennoi prozy" (Myth and Man: On the Artistic Possibilities of Contemporary Prose) (co-authored with H.Yukina-Epshtein), Novyi Mir, l98l, No. 4, 236-248 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1982, No. 5).

"Obrazy detstva" (Images of Childhood) (co-authored with H. Yukina-Epshtein). Novyi Mir, l979, No. l2, 242-257 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin,1980, No. 6).

"Ot slova k zhizni. O literaturno-teoreticheskikh sbornikakh 'Kontekst'" (From Word to Life: on the literary-theoretical books in the series "Context"). Novyi mir, 1977, No. 6, 272-278 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1978, No. 1).

"Vsechelovechnost’ russkoi klassiki" (The All-Encompassing Humanism of the Russian Classics). Novyi mir, 1976, No. 4, 265-270.