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 Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Liberties: A Journal of Culture and Politics, 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.