Essays & Literary Criticism

• On Clemens Setz's "Die Frequenzen," World Literature Today
  Nov/Dec 2010
• "On Translating Gunther Geltinger's 'Man Angel,'" Words Without Borders
  June 2010
• "All His World's a Stage," on Sándor Márai, Bookforum
  Dec/Jan 2009
• "A Parallel Universe of Pain," on H.G. Adler, Moment Magazine
  Nov/Dec 2008
• "Flocks of Gulls," on Samuel Weber and Walter Benjamin, The Times Literary Supplement
  November 14, 2008
• On Walter Benjamin, The Times Literary Supplement
  July 4, 2008
• "Boy Wondering," on Sasa Stanisic, Bookforum
  Summer 2008
• "After Images," on Peter Handke, Bookforum
  Summer 2007
• "Comedy of Terrors," on Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Bookforum
  Feb/Mar 2007
• "Place Odyssey," on Peter Stamm, Bookforum
  Apr/May 2006
• "Peter Altenberg's Extracts from Life," Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation
  Spring and Fall 2006
• "Jacques Derrida, The Last European," in Europe and Its Boundaries (Lexington Books)
  Longer version for a collection of essays, fall 2009
• "Jacques Derrida, The Last European," Substance
  Issue 110, Volume 35, Number 2, 2006
• "Mother Nature's Son," on Novalis, The Nation
  July 18/25, 2005
• "Collective Memory and the Holocaust," interview with Peter Eisenman, The Nation
  May 31, 2005
• "Hostile Obituary for Derrida," The Nation
  November 24, 2004