SELECTED Essays and Reviews

The Damage Has Been Done / Commonweal

Conrad’s American Century / Engelsberg Ideas

Our Man in Marseilles / Los Angeles Review of Books

Drone Fever / Commonweal

The Fall and Rise of Central Europe / Engelsberg Ideas

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

Operation Nietzsche / Commonweal

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

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

Christian Kracht’s ‘Eurotrash’ / The Washington Post

When Hitchens Was Good / Commonweal

The Sufferings of Nietzsche / Los Angeles Review of Books

The Good European: Georg Brandes / Liberties

The Fiction That Dare Not Speak Its Name / Liberties

Escape Artist: Henrik Ibsen / New York Review of Books

Out of Sorts: On Tokarczuk / The Literary Review

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

Without God or Reason: On Albert Camus, Commonweal

Escape Artist: Henrik Ibsen / New York Review of Books

The Awful Shapelessness of Loss / Los Angeles Review of Books

What Might Have Been / Commonweal

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

The Secular Magic of Kamel Daoud, New Lines Magazine

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