Selected Publications

Stories

• The Heart in Her Hands
• For Rain is to Wet and Fire to Burn
• The Fear of Missing Out
• Satin and Velvet
• The Moneylender’s Angel
• The Winds and Persecutions of the Sky
• Hypoxia in Three-Quarter Time

Essays

• Rank and File
• What They Wrote About the War
• The Romance of Distance Has Faded
• The Gesture of the Text
• The Wound in the Willows
• A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art
• Free Roaming
• Joseph Epstein

Book Reviews

• Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
• Sybille Bedford: A Life, by Selina Hastings
• On the Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays, D.H. Lawrence
• Dostoevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears, by László Földényi
• What a Library Means to a Woman, by Sheila Liming
• On Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow, by Philippe Jaccottet
• Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser
• The Weil Conjectures, by Karen Olsson
• Three Volumes on Kafka, by Reiner Stach
• In Search of Silence, by Samuel Delany
• Montaigne: A Life, by Philippe Desan
• No Time to Spare, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Shadow in the Garden, by James Atlas
• The Intellectual Life, by Antonin Sertillanges
• Odessa Stories, by Isaac Babel