I’m the author of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) and A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press, 2017). My writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Liberties, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and Commonweal, among other publications. I currently work as the European Liaison for Liberties: A Journal of Culture and Politics. In 2026, I served as a Consulting Editor to Granta 175: Scandinavia.