LITERARY CRITICISM

A Sephardic Family Odyssey from Constantinople to Queens

The New York Times Book Review, May 21, 2023: BR8

Translated into Spanish

Through Imprisonment and Exile, Sevgi Soysal Kept Writing

The New York Times Book Review, December 25, 2022: BR13


The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said

“The Provocative Polymath,” The New York Times Book Review, April 18, 2021: BR17

The Pious French Poet Who Palled Around With Picasso and Apollinaire

“The Bard of Montmartre,” The New York Times Book Review December 6, 2020: BR68

 

Art, Love and Longing, the French Way

“French Fiction,” The New York Times Book Review, June 16, 2019: BR22

Reading Proust in the Gulag

The New York Times Book Review, Feature Essay, January 20, 2019: BR17

Texting Under Drone-Crossed Skies

Stanford Arcade, March 5, 2019

Fiction in Review: Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry

Yale Review, Volume: 106, Issue 4 (2018): 154-162

 

James Baldwin’s Beautiful, Complex Vision of Black American Childhood

Slate, August 30, 2018

In the Snatches of Free Time: On Collecting Roland Barthes

The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 23, 2018

Four Pheasants for Your Silence: A Review of Marcel Proust’s ‘Letters to His Neighbor’

Michigan Quarterly Review, November 3, 2017

‘Hospital Series’ by Amelia Rosselli

MAKE Literary Magazine, November 6, 2017

 

‘The Albertine Workout’ by Anne Carson

MAKE Literary Magazine, Issue 16 (Winter 2015-2016): 139-141

‘Her Not All Her’ by Elfriede Jelinek

MAKE Literary Magazine, May 28, 2014

‘Blue Yodel’ by Ansel Elkins

MAKE Literary Magazine, June 21, 2017

 
 

PERSONAL ESSAYS

Seven Lakes Drive

Photo-essay, Mitos Magazín, Volume 3, September 2, 2019

A Trial Separation

Personal Essay, 212 Magazine, Vol. 11 (Spring/Summer 2021): 56-57

Auto-translation in Turkish: “Bir Ayrılık Denemesi,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 11 (İlkbahar/Yaz 2021): 56-57

Unsentimental Vistas

Stanford Arcade, September 11, 2018

The People Who Pledge Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution

The Atlantic, September 23, 2017

 

INTERVIEW SERIES WITH POETS

Revived by Laughter

Nuar Alsadir

Essay & Interview

212 Magazine, Vol. 15 (Autumn/Winter 2023): 54-59

Translated by Özge Somersan into Turkish: “Kahkahayla Dirilmek,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 15 (Sonbahar/Kış 2023): 54-59.

Silent Gestures with Ilya Kaminsky

Essay & Interview

212 Magazine, Vol. 12 (Autumn/Winter 2021): 32-35

Translated by Damla Kellecioğlu into Turkish: “İlya Kaminsky ile Suskun Bahisler,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 12 (Sonbahar/Kış 2021): 32-35

 
 
 

FILM & ART CRITICISM

Turkey’s Photography Doyenne

The New York Review of Books, March 9, 2019

The Cinematic Afterlife of James Baldwin

Yale Review, Volume: 107, Issue 2 (2019): 202-209

You Live Till You Die: Fatih Akin’s Hesitant Vigilante 

Senses of Cinema, Feature Article, Issue 87 (2018)

Speeding Up Chekhov 

The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 22, 2018

Abbas Kiarostami’s Digital Turn

Stanford Arcade, April 30, 2018

 
 
 
 

PEER-REVIEW ARTICLES & REVIEWS

Slow Consumables

ASAP/Journal, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2019): 645-670.

Ludic Limbos: Beckett’s Belacqua and Intertextual Subversion in Molloy

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, Volume 30, Issue 2 (2018): 353-364. 

Translating Whitman’s ‘Barbaric Yawp’ into Turkish

Comparative Yearbook, Volume 4  (2013): 335-338. 

Review of Racquel J. Gates’s Double Negative: The Black Image in Popular Culture

Critical Inquiry Volume 46, Issue 3 (2020): 939-940.

POEMS

“Invisible Labors,” “Durability Ode”

The Summerset Review (Fall 2017)

“Woman Holding a Balance (After Vermeer),” “The Archive,” “Thickening Dark (Penelope)”

The Innisfree Poetry Journal (Vol. 20, Spring 2015)

“After Rilke”

Confrontation Magazine (Poetry, Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 269

“Bowerbird”

The Harvard Advocate (Poetry, Vol. 143, No 4): 61.