Book Reviews

On Complaining

London Review of Books, 20 November 2008.

  • Elisabeth Roudinesco, Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida (Columbia), , trans. William McCuaig

Into the Eisenshpritz

London Review of Books, 10 April 2008.

  • Will Eisner, Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories (Norton)
  • David B., Epileptic (Cape)
  • Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings (Faber)
  • Ivan Brunetti, Misery Loves Comedy (Fantagraphics)

Romancing the Locomotive

The New York Sun, December 28–30, 2007.

  • Andrey Platonov, Soul and Other Stories (NYRB Classics), trans. Robert Chandler, et al

The Passion of Anna

The Nation, July 10, 2006.

  • Elaine Feinstein, Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova (Knopf)

Adventures of a Man of Science

n+1, Number Three, Fall 2005.

  • Franco Moretti, Graphs Maps Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (Verso)

Rearranging the Furniture

The Nation, October 24, 2005.

  • Viktor Shklovsky, Third Factory, (Dalkey Archive Press), trans. Richard Sheldon
  • Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose, (Dalkey Archive Press), trans. Benjamin Sher
  • Viktor Shklovsky, Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, (Dalkey Archive Press), trans. Richard Sheldon
  • Viktor Shklovsky, A Sentimental Journey, (Dalkey Archive Press), trans. Richard Sheldon
  • Viktor Shklovsky, Knight's Move, (Dalkey Archive Press), trans. Richard Sheldon