Translations

Franz Kafka’s Diaries 
(Schocken Books, 2023)

Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll 
(Pantheon, 2020)

Daniel Kehlmann’s 
You Should Have Left (Pantheon, 2017)

Stefan Klein’s We Are All Stardust 
(The Experiment Publishing, 2015)

Writing

“On the Current Situation of German-Language Literature in the English-Speaking World” 
Goethe-Institut USA, May 2014

“‘Dead was Deborah’: Die Vertrautheit des Fremden”
Joseph Roth als Stilist
Universtitätsverlag Winter, June 2013

“On Clemens J. Setz’s Die FrequenzenWorld 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

“Flocks of Gulls,” on Samuel Weber and Walter Benjamin The Times Literary Supplement, November 14, 2008

“A Parallel Universe of Pain,” on H. G. Adler Moment Magazine Nov/Dec 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, 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