LITERARY CRITICISM / BOOK REVIEWS
Criticism as a Way of Life. New Literary History (November 2024)
Make it New…Again: On Alexander Pope. LitHub (November 2024)
Introduction to Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste. NYRB Classics (November 2024)
Thal Tales: On Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake. Bookforum (October 2024)
On the Envelope: On the Letters of Kafka and Dickinson. Liberties Journal (October 2024)
Like a Prayer: On Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo. Sidecar - New Left Review (September 2024)
On the Threshold: On Wayne Koestenbaum. Sidecar - New Left Review (March 2024)
Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife. The Nation (March 2024)
Reading and Time: On Marcel Proust. Liberties Journal (January 2024)
The Longest, Least Remembered American Novel: On Marguerite Young. The New Yorker (October 2023)
An Anatomy of Insomnia: On Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless. TLS (September 2023)
To Affinity and Beyond: On Brian Dillon’s Affinities. Bookforum (August 2023)
Hic et Nunc: On A.E. Stallings’ This Afterlife: Selected Poems. The Nation (January 2023)
Dig It Up Again: A Century of The Waste Land. Poetry Magazine (December 2022)
Halensee: A Father’s Guide to Nabokov’s Berlin. Harper’s Magazine (November 2022)
The Pundit: On Ian McEwan. Sidecar - New Left Review (September 2022)
Writing in the Age of Big Data: On Alexander Kluge’s Russia Container (September 2022)
Toe to Toe with Moby-Dick: On Pierre Senges’ Ahab (Sequels). The Nation (June 2022)
Gary’s Inferno: On Gary Indiana’s Fire Season. Sidecar - New Left Review (May 2022)
When Nations Disappear, What Happens to Nationalities? On Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth. The New York Times (March 2022)
The Irony of Fate: On John Ashbery’s Parallel Movement of the Hands. The Nation (January 2022)
Privatized Grand Narratives: On Carole Angier’s Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald. New Left Review (October 2021)
Yesterday’s Mythologies: On Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads. Sidecar - New Left Review (October 2021)
Mind the Gaps: On Rosmarie Waldrop’s The Nick of Time. Poetry Magazine (September 2021)
Resisting Oblivion: Peter Weiss and the Political Novel. The Point (August 2021)
Back to the Present: On Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch. Sidecar - New Left Review (July 2021)
How Lovely It Is To Be Small: On Robert Walser’s Poetry. Poetry Magazine (May 2021)
The Parasite: On Chris Power’s A Lonely Man. Sidecar - New Left Review (April 2021)
Wilder Times: On Billy Wilder on Assignment. Bookforum (April 2021)
Reading the Room: On Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. Sidecar - New Left Review (February 2021)
To Give Saying Its Shadow: Celan’s Poetry and the Politics of Language. Virginia Quarterly Review (December 2020)
A Heaven of the Book: On Friederike Mayröcker. Poetry Magazine (November 2020)
Temporary Paradise: On Stephanie LaCava’s The Superrationals. Guernica (October 2020)
Pierre Klossowski, Brilliant Brother of Balthus. The New York Review of Books Daily (August 2020)
A Detour Around Rimbaud’s Omega. The Rimbaud Verlaine Foundation. (May 2020)
Phony War, Phony Peace: On Julien Gracq's Balcony in the Forest. The Baffler (November 2017)
The Accidental Avant-Gardist: Raymond Roussel's Lonely Place in Literature. Lapham's Quarterly (May 2017)
The Ambassadors' Plot: The American Abroad from James to Highsmith and Ozick. Lapham's Quarterly (March 2017)
Capitalism as Religion: Borislav Pekic's Houses. 3 Quarks Daily (1 August 2016)
Know Thyself: The Riddles of Anne Garréta's Sphinx. 3 Quarks Daily (27 June 2016)
The Prescriptivist's Progress. 3 Quarks Daily (30 May 2016)
On our Critical Categories: Pretentiousness. 3 Quarks Daily (2 May 2016)
Roger Caillois' Fifteenth Arrondissement. Paris Review Daily (August 2015)
Of Loopholes and Black Holes: Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity. Dissent Magazine (Summer 2013)
Mathematics: by Jacques Roubaud. Bookforum (April 2012)
Paradoxes: Suicide and Literature. The New Inquiry (May 2011)
The Faces of Rimbaud. The New Inquiry (April 2011)
Achilles 2.0: Mathias Énard's Zone. The New Inquiry (March 2011)
Wallace Stevens, Armchair Visionary. More Intelligent Life (January 2010)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Frank O'Hara. More Intelligent Life (August 2008)
Reclaiming Paradise Lost: On Fish's Milton. Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (2003)
POLITICS / PHILOSOPHY
Exile Time. Berlin Review (April 2024)
Battle Lines (Roundtable on Palestinian Literature). Bookforum (January 2024)
From the Planetarium. Granta (November 2023)
Roundtable on the Jewish Left. New Statesman (November 2023)
When We Whisper Together: On Hollow Sentiments. New Statesman (October 2023)
A Golden Age?: On the Art of Criticism. Vinduet (April 2023)
Three Tractatuses: On Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Burger, and Róbert Gál. e-flux criticism (February 2023)
Unhappy Consciousness: On Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen. JQ 249 (August 2022)
Eurovision and its Discontents. Gawker. (May 2022)
Child’s Play: On Wittgenstein’s Word Book. The Believer (June 2021)
The Invisible Militarization of Daily Life in America. Freeman’s - LitHub (April 2020)
Dead Ends: A Necroteleology in No Acts. Sublet (April 2018)
The Long History of a Short Form: The Aphorism from Hippocrates to Maggie Nelson. Lapham's Quarterly (May 2016)
Berlin Notebook. n+1 (November 2014)
Wahlkampfzeit. n+1 (June 2014)
On The People's Mic: Politics in the Age of Post-Literacy. Journal of Occupied Studies (February 2012)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Michael R. Bloomberg. The Baffler (December 2009)
In Defense of Dueling. Philosophy Now (May/June 2008)
FILM CRITICISM / ART CRITICISM
We Are All Ripley. New Statesman (April 2024)
The Cool and the Cold: Painting from the USA and the USSR, 1960-1990 at Gropius Bau. Art/Agenda (October 2021)
Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd. Art/Agenda (January 2021)
Self-Consuming Cinema: On Last Year at Marienbad. The American Reader (October 2013)
The Captive Audience: On Bela Tarr's Satantango. The New Inquiry (June 2011)
Sophie Calle at Paula Cooper. WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art (May 2009)
Sue Williams at David Zwirner. WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art (October 2008)
POETRY / SHORT FICTION
The Story of O. No Quarterly: Longing for the End. (June 2022)
Context Collapse 4. Exacting Clam No. 5 (June 2022)
Context Collapse 1 & 2. Oxonian Review (February 2022)
Ghosts, Naturally. Firmament 3 (July 2021)
Ecce Homo / Ecce Femina. Minor Literature[s] (March 2021)
Le Tombeau de James Joyce. The Crank (February 2021)
Between Parentheses. 3:AM Magazine (February 2021)
Two or Three Photographs of Sophia Schliemann. stadtsprachen magazine (September 2020)
Zwei oder Drei Fotografien von Sophia Schliemann, tr. Joey Balsen and Birger Hoyer
Thoughts While Playing Online Chess. The Decadent Review (March 2020)
from Context Collapse. Statorec (February 2020)
On Rules and Private Language. Legend Press Flash Fiction (October 2017)
That Obscure Object of Desire. Conjunctions 58: Riveted (Spring 2012)
New York Spleen. Pluck Magazine (April 2011)
TRANSLATION
Grégoire Bouillier. Cape Canaveral. Readux Books (Fall 2015)
Roger Caillois. A Little Guide to the Fifteenth Arrondissement for the Use of Phantoms. Readux Books. (Spring 2015)