selected
publications

POETRY

On Transcultural Readings and Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel 
(co-written with Alex Tan)

On Cinema and the Sea: Three Films by Mais Darwazah, Agnès Varda, and Sky Hopinka

On Transferences Between the Public and Private in Eugenio Montale’s Butterfly of Dinard

On How Geography Dissolves Into Memory in Mutsuo Takahashi’s Only Yesterday

On the Abjections of Domestic Life and Ebru Ojen’s Lojman

On Resurrection, Writing Against Death, and Hélène Cixous’s Well-Kept Ruins

On Italy and China’s Invisible Affinities, Memory, and History

On Silence, the Eternal Present, and Pascal Quignard’s The Fount of Time

On Iceland, Absences, and One-Sided Conversations With the World

On Migrant Literature and Max Lobe’s Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside?

On Nietzsche, Weil, and Lina Wolff’s Carnality

On Spirits, Matters, and Freedoms in Correspondence with China’s One-Child Policy

On Yu Xiuhua and the Poetics of Courage

On Dream Language and Jonas Eika’s After the Sun

On Linguistic Exile in the Works of Minae Mizumura and Jhumpa Lahiri

On the Unmaking of Labour and Noémi Lefebvre’s The Poetics of Work

On How Tove Ditlevsen Turns on the Light in The Copenhagen Trilogy

On Fate and Anja Kampmann’s High as the Waters Rise

On Tokyo’s Psychogeography and Roland Barthes’s The Empire of Signs

On the Female Nomad and Sanmao’s Stories of the Sahara

On Marguerite Duras’s Sea in Me and Other Writing

On Spareness and Wang Anyi’s Fu Ping

On Making a Doorway in Spittoon Literary Magazine’s Fifth Issue

On Yu Yoyo and the Unsayable

On Kiriu Minashita’s Resonances

On Harbin, Displacement, and the Delimitations of the Word

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