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