Review of Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ Ghost Pains

The Arts Fuse, April 2024


Review of Éric Chevillard’s Museum Visits

The Arts Fuse, March 2024


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