Review of Adam Ehrlich Sachs’ Gretel and the Great War

Berlin Journal, October 2024

“The sleep of reason produces monsters, but so does its unblinking stare, and few writers illustrate this more vividly than Adam Ehrlich Sachs…”

Review of Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ Ghost Pains

The Arts Fuse, April 2024

“Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ bracing collection of stories Ghost Pains is a tonic for the moral and intellectual muddles of the information age…”

Review of Éric Chevillard’s Museum Visits

The Arts Fuse, March 2024

“Éric Chevillard is a virtuoso of the short form…”

Review of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translating Myself and Others

The Arts Fuse, June 2022

Translation and Complicity: Finger(less)prints

Toledo Programme - literary colloquium berlin, December 2020

Introduction to Places Lost and Found

Lukas Bärfuß’s Büchner Prize Acceptance Speech

The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2020

The Translator Relay

Words Without Borders, May 2015

Childhood Regained: Gregor von Rezzori's Fiction

The Hudson Review, Spring 2012

The Widmer Uncertainty Principle

The New Criterion, November 2012

Dispatches From a Lost Empire

Review of Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters
Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2012

The Revolutionary Novelist: Victor Serge

Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2011

In Which he Serves: Alain Claude Sulzer's Perfect Waiter

Bookforum, April-May 2008

Fred Wander: Scheherazade of the Shoah

The Hudson Review, Summer 2008

Madame de Stael: The Inveterate Idealist

The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001

His Other Competition: Gustav Mahler’s Letters to his Wife

The Wall Street Journal, December 2004