2020
“The Human Comedy,” a review of Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives in the Washington Examiner
“Decline and Salvation,” a review of David Heatley’s Qualification in the Times Literary Supplement.
“The Right to Love,” a review of Leïla Slimani’s Sex and Lies in the Washington Examiner
“Our Men in Moscow,” a review of Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People in the Washington Examiner
“Second Wind,” a review of Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness in the Literary Review
“The Dignity of the Buffoon,” a review of Curzio Malaparte’s Paris Diary in the Washington Examiner
“Renaissance Man,” a review of The Idea of Perfection by Paul Valéry in the Washington Examiner
“Stale Obscenities,” a review of Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe in the Washington Examiner
2019
2018
2017
A review of Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason in Boundary 2
“The Disease of Disinheritance,” a review of Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter in Review 31
A review of Alfred Döblin’s Bright Magic in the Quarterly Conversation
2016
“One Long Rock and Roll”: a Review of Eve Babitz’s Slow Days, Fast Company in Review 31
2012-2015
“Hope as Insult and Provocation: on Jean Améry’s Suicide” in Asymptote
“The Fragile Shelter of the Declarative: On Édouard Levé” in Review of Contemporary Fiction.
A Review of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission for The Quarterly Conversation
“The Weight of an Aphorism” in 3:AM
“Melancholy and its Correctives: Flaubert, Chekhov, Tolstoy” in 3:AM
“Soft Knowledge, Soft Target” in The Author
“Die Gewissensforschungsmaschine: on Marianne Fritz” in Asymptote
“A Visit to the African Museum” in 3:AM
“With a Burning Church Steeple Under Each Arm: an Introduction to Josef Winkler” in Asymptote
“The Nonessential: on Marianne Fritz” in Paris Review Daily
“The Popularizer of Pessimism,” a review of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission in The Quarterly Conversation
A review of John Keene’s Counternarratives in Music & Literature
“Concerning the Nobility of my Dog” in 3:AM
Print only:
Review of Juan Villoro’s The Guilty in The Times Literary Supplement, 14/10/2015
Review of Carmen Boullosa’s Texas, the Great Theft in The Times Literary Supplement, 28/12/2015
“Kafka Smiled,” a review of Bambi’s Jewish Roots in The Times Literary Supplement, 10/02/2016
Review of Toni Sala’s The Boys in The Times Literary Supplement, 09/03/2016
Review of Josep Maria de Sagarra’s Private Life in The Times Literary Supplement, 11/05/2016
Review of Günter Grass’s Of All that Ends in The Times Literary Supplement, 21/12/16.
Review of Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue in The Times Literary Supplement, 26/1/2017.
“No More Emails,” a review of Enrique Vila-Matas’s Vampire in Love, in The Times Literary Supplement, 07/2/2017
“Eastern Approaches,” a review of Mathias Énard’s Compass in The Literary Review, May 2017
Review of Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon in The Times Literary Supplement, 05/07/2017
“Ongören on my Mind,” A Review of Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman in The Literary Review, September 2017.
“Porn’s Future” in CR Men’s Book Issue 5, Fall 2017.
“Spinning Out Yarns,” a review of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s The World Goes On in The Literary Review, November 2017.
“Sex, Lies, and Streaming Video” in CR Fashion Book Issue 10, Spring 2018.
“Stranded Whale,” a review of Jan Bürger’s Der gestrandete Wal in The Times Literary Supplement, June 1, 2018.
“Black Comedy,” a review of Fran Ross’s Oreo, in The Literary Review, July 2018.
“No Sperm, No Egg, No Problem” in CR Fashion Book Issue 14, Spring 2019.
“The Sleep of Reason” a review of Carlos Rojas’s Valley of the Fallen, in The New York Review of Books, May 23, 2019.
“Freedom Regained,” a review of Eric Karpeles’s Almost Nothing and Jószef Czapski’s Lost Time in the Literary Review, September 2019.
