Translations

Franz Kafka’s Diaries
Schocken Books, 2023

Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll
Pantheon, 2020

Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left
Pantheon, 2017

Stefan Klein’s We Are All Stardust
The Experiment Publishing, 2015

Clemens J. Setz's Indigo
Liveright/Norton, 2014

Wolfgang Jeschke’s The Cusanus Game
Tor Books, 2013

Auma Obama’s And Then Life Happens: A Memoir
St. Martin’s Press, 2012

Helmut Ortner’s The Lone Assassin
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012

Philipp von Hilgers’s War Games: A History of War on Paper
The MIT Press, 2012

Thomas Pletzinger’s Funeral for a Dog
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Juliane Koepcke’s When I Fell From The Sky
Titletown Publishing, 2011

Joseph Roth's Job
Archipelago Books, 2010

Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov
Verso Books, 2009

Kevin Vennemann’s Close to Jedenew
Melville House, 2008

Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion
Archipelago Books, 2008

“Don’t Wake Me Up Too Soon” by Daniel Kehlmann
Granta, December 2023

“The Class Picture” by Clemens J. Setz
litrix.de, 2019

“On the Piano Etudes of Unsuk Chin” by Clemens J. Setz
Music & Literature, May 2018

“Why I’m Not A Great Lover” by Clemens J. Setz
The White Review, January 2015

“The Ferris Wheel” by Clemens J. Setz
Five Dials Number 26, December 2012 (p. 60)

“Gentlemen, We Are Living On The Edge” by Thomas Pletzinger
Five Dials Number 26, December 2012 (p. 50)

“The Expansion of Literary Language” by Ulrich Blumenbach
Five Dials Number 26, December 2012 (p. 23)

“Death Valley, Disneyland, Death Valley” by Thomas Pletzinger
Sport 40, Contemporary Writing in German, 2012

“Borrowed Feathers” by Clemens J. Setz
Sport 40, Contemporary Writing in German, 2012

“The World of Men and the World of Women” by Clemens J. Setz
Words Without Borders, June 2011

“Love in the Time of the Mahlstadt Child” by Clemens J. Setz
New Books in German, April 2011

“It Might Even Be Nice” by Jakob Hein
Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, No. 7: Berlin

“The Berlin Project” by Michael Wesely
Conjunctions: 55 Urban Arias, October 2010

from “Man Angel” by Gunther Geltinger
Words Without Borders, June 2010

from “Speak, Nabokov” by Michael Maar
n+1, November 13, 2009

“Eternal Youth” by Robert Menasse
Words Without Borders, November 2009

“Capoeira with Heckler & Koch” by Thomas Pletzinger
Words Without Borders, November 2009

“Memory of a Paris Street” by Siegfried Kracauer
Words Without Borders, September 2009

“Memoir” by Maxim Biller
Heeb, Issue 21, August 2009

from “Wallner Begins To Fly” by Thomas von Steinäcker
signandsight.com, September 19, 2007

“A Prisoner of the Nobel” by Daniel Kehlmann
The New York Times, August 20, 2006

Writing

“On the Wrong Side”
The Point, November 13, 2023

“On the Space between Waking and Dreaming in Kafka’s Diaries”
Aeon, June 7, 2023

“A Century On, the Search for the Real Franz Kafka Continues”
The New York Times, February 2, 2023

“Desanctifying Kafka” 
Paper Brigade Daily, January 9, 2023

“On the Current Situation of German-Language Literature in the English-Speaking World” 
Goethe-Institut USA, May 2014

“‘Dead was Deborah’: Die Vertrautheit des Fremden” in Joseph Roth als Stilist
Universtitätsverlag Winter, June 2013

“On Clemens J. Setz’s Die Frequenzen
World Literature Today, Nov/Dec 2010

“On Translating Gunther Geltinger's ‘Man Angel’”
Words Without Borders, June 2010

“All His World's a Stage,” on Sándor Márai
Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2009

“Flocks of Gulls,” on Samuel Weber and Walter Benjamin
The Times Literary Supplement, November 14, 2008

“A Parallel Universe of Pain,” on H. G. Adler
Moment Magazine
Nov/Dec 2008

“On Walter Benjamin” The Times Literary Supplement, July 4, 2008

“Boy Wondering,” on Sasa Stanisic
Bookforum, Summer 2008

“After Images,” on Peter Handke
Bookforum, Summer 2007

“Comedy of Terrors,” on Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Bookforum, Feb/Mar 2007

“Place Odyssey,” on Peter Stamm
Bookforum, Apr/May 2006

“Peter Altenberg's Extracts from Life”
Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation, Spring and Fall 2006

“Jacques Derrida, The Last European,” in Europe and Its Boundaries
Lexington Books, Fall 2009

“Jacques Derrida, The Last European”
Substance, Issue 110, Volume 35, Number 2, 2006

“Mother Nature's Son,” on Novalis
The Nation, July 18/25, 2005

“Collective Memory and the Holocaust,” interview with Peter Eisenman
The Nation, May 31, 2005

“Hostile Obituary for Derrida”
The Nation, November 24, 2004