SELECTED Essays and Reviews

The Good European: Georg Brandes / Liberties (Fall 2023)

Escape Artist: Henrik Ibsen / New York Review of Books

The Fiction That Dare Not Speak Its Name / Liberties (Spring 2022)

Our Man in Marseilles / Los Angeles Review of Books

Operation Nietzsche / Commonweal

António Lobo Antunes’s ‘Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach’ / The Washigton Post

What Does Greenland Mean to Denmark? / The Dial

In the Margins of Time: James Agee and Weldon Kees / Nimrod International Journal (Summer 2025)

Solvej Balle’s ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ / The Washington Post

The Role of the Modern Writer: On Thomas Mann / The Yale Review

The Awful Shapelessness of Loss / Los Angeles Review of Books

What Might Have Been / Commonweal

Christian Kracht’s ‘Eurotrash’ / The Washington Post

The Sufferings of Nietzsche / Los Angeles Review of Books

Out of Sorts: On Tokarczuk / The Literary Review

When Hitchens Was Good / Commonweal

Paranoid Humanoid: On Kafka / The Literary Review

What Will Survive of Him: On Martin Amis / Commonweal

The Rootless, Brilliant and Tragic Life of Joseph Roth / The Washington Post

The Bad Book: On Michael Schur’s Moral Philosophy, Gawker

The Secular Magic of Kamel Daoud, New Lines Magazine

Without God or Reason: On Albert Camus, Commonweal

How Should One Live?: On Kierkegaard, The American Interest

Waiting for Fascism: Joseph Roth and Fictions of Weimar, The Point

A Sickness Unto Death: On George Scialabba, The American Interest

Life and Death in Bergamo, The American Interest

The Least British Shakespeare, The New Republic

Joseph Roth and the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream, LitHub

Citizen Mann, Thomas Mann House

The Danish Tolstoy, New York Review of Books (Daily)

Mirth and Melancholy: On Machado de Assis, Los Angeles Review of Books

Darwin on Endless Trial, Los Angeles Review of Books

Flash and Lumber: On Elizabeth Hardwick, Los Angeles Review of Books

C. E. Morgan’s Great American Novel, Los Angeles Review of Books

Kafka: An End or a Beginning?, Los Angeles Review of Books

400 Years of Nonsense About Don Quixote, The New Republic

Me, Myself, and Hitler, Los Angeles Review of Books

Stefan Zweig and the Long Night’s Dawn, Los Angeles Review of Books

A Keeper of Love’s Flame: Regine Olsen and Søren Kierkegaard, Los Angeles Review of Books