Longer essays

in The New York Review of Books & the London Review of Books.

Most recently, essays about Yoko Tawada, Karl Lagerfeld, Emmanuel Carrère, Bruno Schulz, Mariana Enríquez, Pola Oloixarac, BoJack Horseman, Mario Levrero, Lars von Trier and Gertrude Stein…

Shorter essays

in The Guardian, The New York Times, & Le Monde. 

And miniature things

like a description of the studio in T Magazine; & outtakes from an interview with Václav Havel in The Paris Review; & a conversation at a cricket match with Tom Stoppard in The Believer; & homages to Martin Amis and Bob Silvers in The Paris Review.