The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
World Literature Today, March 2024
Autobiography and authenticity: Tobi Lakmaker’s The History of My Sexuality
Words Without Borders, February 2024
Atticus Review, December 2023
“To tell is to betray”: Marina Jarre’s Return to Latvia
Words Without Borders, June 2023
‘The outport I and II’, Borders and Belonging Anthology [contributor]
Cephalopress, December 2022
Édouard Louis’s “A Woman’s Battles and Transformations”: Why Our Mothers Move Us
Words Without Borders, October 2022
“Marvelous beings, stories.”: A review of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand
Litro, October 2022
[Translation] ‘To My Fellow Machines’ by Heinz Helle
Asymptote Journal, April 2022
Halldór Laxness’s Salka Valka: Claustrophobia amid the vastness
Words Without Borders, March 2022
Redemption through sin: A review of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
World Literature Today, January 2022
Olga Tokarczuk: Where to start with her literature
The Calvert Journal, 14 December 2021
Ivo Andric: Where to start with his literature
The Calvert Journal, 5 October 2021
Svetlana Alexievich: Where to start with her literature
The Calvert Journal, 25 August 2021
Marina Jarre’s stunning memoir, Distant Fathers, maps its author’s peripatetic search for herself
Words Without Borders, August 2021
The Calvert Journal, 30 July 2021
9 radical Polish books to add to your reading list [contributor]
The Calvert Journal, 8 July 2021
Enduring our peaceful winters: A review of The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
World Literature Today, Spring 2021
100 books to read from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [contributor]
The Calvert Journal, 16 February 2021
Ha Seong-nan’s Bluebeard’s First Wife gives the old tale of patriarchy a new twist
Words Without Borders, May 2020
To The Lake: Kapka Kassabova’s book is a melancholic tale of boundaries and war in the Balkans
The Calvert Journal, 19 February 2020
Magda Szabó’s cult novel Abigail is an adventurous tale of teenage friendship in wartime Hungary
The Calvert Journal, 28 January 2020
A Balkan road trip leads to a reckoning with the past in Olja Savičević‘s Singer in the Night
Words Without Borders, January 2020
Calvert Journal: Our 10 favourite books of 2019 will change how you see the world
The Calvert Journal, 20 December 2019
Words Without Borders, November 2019
The Calvert Journal, October 2019
Biljana Jovanović‘s daring “Dogs And Others”: Growing up as a queer woman in communist Yugoslavia
Words Without Borders, April 2019
World Literature Today, January 2019
Olga Tokarczuk: The meteoric rise and political urgency of Poland’s pre-eminent novelist
The Calvert Journal, 16 November 2018
Letter from Herzegovina: Daredevil diving and painful history in a modern Bosnia on the edge
The Calvert Journal, 16 October 2018
Asymptote Journal, 1 October 2018
A Swarm of Dust by Evald Flisar, translated from Slovenian by David Limon
The Calvert Journal, 6 August 2018
Letter from The Bay of Kotor: Searching for authenticity in Montenegro’s tourist idyll
The Calvert Journal, 3 July 2018
Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić, translated from Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams
The Calvert Journal, 8 May 2018
Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva, translated from Russian by Carol Apollonio
Asymptote Journal, January 2018
Yolka: The story of Russia’s New Year tree, from pagan origins to Soviet celebrations
The Calvert Journal, 25 December 2017
Q&A with Istros Books: Bringing Balkan literature to the world
Balkanist, 26 November 2017
The Spoils of Tourism: Kotor's UNESCO World Heritage Status
Balkanist, 16 October 2017
After Coetzee: An Anthology of Animal Fictions ed. A. Marie Houser
Necessary Fiction, 16 October 2017
24 Hours in Lviv: A travel guide to western Ukraine's tourism capital
The Calvert Journal, 25 September 2017
Aberrant by Marek Šindelka, translated from Czech by Nathan Fields
Necessary Fiction, 11 September 2017
Hair Everywhere by Tea Tulic, translated from Croatian by Coral Petkovich
Necessary Fiction, 31 July 2017
Letter from Butmir: A Sarajevo neighbourhood coming to terms with the scars of siege warfare
The Calvert Journal, 28 June 2017
In conversation: Carol Appolonio on serving the spirit of communication in translation
Asymptote Journal Blog, 5 June 2017
Literature from the Caucasus: The best new fiction from the Caucasus
The Calvert Journal, 25 April 2017
Balkan literature: The best contemporary fiction to add to your reading list