publications
stories & Essays
Not One Word: On Translation
Psychoanalytic Perspectives, forthcoming 2025
Translator’s Forward in One Act The Leucothea Dialogues
Archipelago Books forthcoming 2025
Julia
Conjunctions November 2022
Dear Natalia: How I Translated Natalia Ginzburg
Reading in Translation, February 2021
Literary Translators Avoid Footnotes
Center for the Art of Literary Translation , June 2019
Virtuous Quicksand — On Procrastination
Paris Review Daily September 2017
Cat Without a Tail
On Why You Must Never Depend on One Coffee Shop
On the Dignity of an Empty Parking Lot
three essays about Virginia Woolf
Jewish Book CouncilSeptember 2017
Folie a deux
No You Tell It! Performance Series , November 2014
Washington Square Review, Winter 2016
On Translation's Inadequacies
Doubletake Performance Series at Apex Arts, April 2014
Conjunctions, vol. 63, 2014
Abandon Distress
Emily Books, December 2013
Sententia magazine
Lapsus
Emily Books
September 2012
The Author of Her Destiny
Emily Books
November 2012
A Mystic at Heart
Guilt and Pleasure
Winter 2008
arts & culture
Krista Steinke’s Good Luck with the Sun
artists catalogue | Women Make Art Gallery | May 2018
Profile of novelist Gary Shteyngart
Time Out
Profile of photographer Nick Waplington
ArtReview, Fall 2006
Photography Show, Richard Galpin
ArtReview, September 2005
Profile of photographer James Szarkowski
ArtReview, March 2005
Interview with photographer, Elinor Carucci
ArtReview, October 2005
Art installation in Union Square by Chiho Aoshima
ArtReview (UK), June 2005
Profile of Photographer, Yassaman Ameri
Aperture, Winter 2004
Interview with Umberto Eco
Bookforum, Fall 2002
Interview with the Revs. Calvin Butts & Darrel Griffin, “The Future of the Black Church”
USA Weekend, February 2001
Interview with filmmaker, Amos Gitai
BOMB Magazine, Spring 2001
Profile of photographer, Elinor Carucci
Nerve magazine
Profile of poet, Dr. Rafael Campo
Praxis Press, July 12, 2000
Interview with novelist, Jim Crace
BOMB Magazine, Spring 2000
On video artist, Shirin Neshat
Aperture, Winter 2002
On filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami
Aperture, Summer 2001
On photographer, Sharon Harper
BOMB Magazine
bookreviews
Dare Package: Revisiting the High Risk anthology of transgressive writing
Bookforum, Summer 2021
Inheritance, Dani Shapiro
Bookforum, Summer 2019
My Duck Is Your Duck, Deborah Eisenberg
Bookforum, Fall 2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Bookforum, Summer 2018
Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood
Bookforum, Fall 2017
The Invention of Angela Carter, Edumund Gordon
Bookforum, Summer 2017
This Close to Happiness, Daphne Merkin
Bookforum, Winter 2016
Dare Package: Revisiting the High Risk anthology of transgressive writing
Bookforum, Summer 2021
Dare Package: Revisiting the High Risk anthology of transgressive writing
Bookforum, Summer 2021
, Bookforum, Summer 2
, Bookforum, Fall 2017
, Bookforum, Summer 2017
, Daphne Merkin, Bookforum, January 2016After Birth, Elisa Albert, Bookforum, January 2015Perfidia, James Ellroy, Bookforum, September 2014Navidad and Matanza, Carlos Labbé, Bookforum, April 2014The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante, Bookforum, February 2014How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields, Bookforum, April 2013Aftermath, Rachel Cusk, Bookforum, September 2012Windeye, Brian Evenson, NPR.org, June 2012Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Etgar Keret, NPR.org, April 2012By Blood, Ellen Ullman, NPR.org, February 2012Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet, Bookforum, September 2011Baby, Paula Bomer, Bookforum, February 2011Reborn, Susan Sontag, Time Out New York, December 2008The Dancer and the Thief, Antonio Skarmeta, The New York Times Book Review, March 2008The Book of Other People, ed. by Zadie Smith, The LA Times Book Review, January 2008The Genetic Strand, Edward Ball, The LA Times Book Review November 2007Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’Nan, Bookforum, Fall 2007The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud, Bookforum, Fall 2006 2001 – 2005Veronica, Mary Gaitskill, BookforumEnchantments, Linda Ferri, The New York Times Book ReviewAmerican Woman, Susan Choi, BookforumThe Gospel of Thomas, Elaine Pagels, NewsdaySappho’s Leap, Erica Jong, The New York ObserverThe Natural History of Disaster, W. G. Sebald, BookforumThe Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri, BookforumCollected Novels of Cesare Pavese, BookforumA Writer’s House in Wales, Jan Morris, New York Times Book ReviewTo Begin Where I Am, Czeslaw Milosz, American ScholarSacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, John Richardson, The New York Times Book ReviewAmerican Exorcism, Michael W. Cuneo, NewsdayWhere the Stress Lies, Susan Sontag, BookforumDangerous Muse, The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood, Nancy Schoenberger, New York ObserverHannah Arendt, Life is Narrative, Julia Kristeva, BookforumMarguerite Duras, A Life, Laure Adler, Bookforum (cover)“The Novels of Yoel Hoffman,” Bookforum (cover)“Dante’s Purgatory in Translation,” Newsweek.com“Italo Calvino’s autobiographical writing,” Bookforum (cover) 1998 – 2000Niccolò’s Smile, Maurizio Viroli, SalonQuarrel & Quandary, Cynthia Ozick, BookforumThe Binding Chair, Kathryn Harrison, nerve.comMy Date With Satan, Stacey Richter, and The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club, Julia Slavin, The New York ObserverIntimacy, Hanif Kureishi, The NationMan or Mango, Lucy Ellman, BOMB MagazineShaking a Leg: Journalism and Writing, Angela Carter, BOMB MagazineBlood Acre, Peter Landesman and The Narrowback, Michael Ledgewidge, New York ObserverBernhard, Katschen & The Book of Joseph, Yoel Hoffman, BOMBA Heart So White, Javier Marias, BOMBJourney to Beloved, Oprah Winfrey, and Life, the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler, New York Observer
oddities
Introduction to the Jewish Literary Map of Italy | Paper Brigade | February 2019
“The Music of Arlene Zallman,” liner notes to Sei la terra che aspetta, Bridge Records, Summer 2010
short translations
Natalia Ginzburg is the Last Woman on Earth, intro and Italo Calvino translation | Paris Review Daily | June 2019
These Letters Were Written To Be Burned: Dino Campana and Sibilla Aleramo” curated translation and commentary, The Literary Review, Summer, 2002“The Reader’s Report, Foreign Books in Fascist Italy” curated translation and commentary The Literary Review, Winter, 2002
“How Mussolini’s Legacy Lives on in the Public and Private Sphere” by Andrea Bajani, Lithub, January 2023“La Signora Bovary” by Natalia Ginzburg, Reading in Translation, 2021“History’s Inexorable Demands” by Sandra Petrignani, Reading in Translation, 2021“Natalia Ginzburg, the Last Woman Left on Earth” by Italo Calvino, Paris Review Daily, 2019“Introduction to the Gospel of Matthew” by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Canongate Bible series, Canongate UK, 2004“Books Never Written, Journeys Never Made” short story by Antonio Tabucchi, Grand Street, 2003“Carelessly I Made Love” excerpt from Sbadatamente ho fatto l’amore by Camilla Baresani, New Italian Women II, Italica Press, New York, 2003“Fragment of a Thriller” by Silvia Ballestra, New Italian Women II, Italica Press, New York, 2003“The Clocks” story by Federigo Tozzi, The Republic of Letters, Summer 2001 “To Dream of Death” story by Federigo Tozzi, The Literary Review, Spring 2001 “The Tavern” story by Federigo Tozzi, The Chicago Review, Spring 2001 “Three Short Stories”, Conjunctions, Fall, 1998Selected short stories and poems, Roads to Roma, An Anthology of Roma Writing, Siobhan Dowd, ed., PEN International, 1998
