BOOK INTRODUCTIONS
What Remains by Leylâ Erbil
Translated by Alev Ersan, Amy Spangler, and Mark Wyers
Forthcoming October 2025
LITERARY CRITICISM
For This Turkish Writer, the Flaws of Language Were Its Greatest Asset
“‘Waiting for the Fear,’ by Oguz Atay,” The New York Times Book Review, October 27, 2024: BR27
A Celebratory Take on Audre Lorde’s Brave, Hard, Unconventional Life
“Celebrating Audre Lorde,” The New York Times Book Review, September 21, 2024: BR21
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
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
Seven Lakes Drive
Photo-essay, Mitos Magazín, Volume 3, September 2, 2019
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 CONTEMPORARY POETS
An analytical and biographical essay precedes each interview.
At the Edge of Words:
Aria Aber
Essay & Interview
212 Magazine, Vol. 19 (Spring/Summer 2025): 56-61.
Team-translated into Turkish as: “Kelimelerin Kıyısında: Aria Aber,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 19: 56-61.
Everyday Epiphanies:
A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar
Essay & Interview
212 Magazine, Vol. 18 (Autumn/Winter 2024): 106-111.
Team-translated into Turkish as: “Kaveh Akbar ile Günlük Uyanışlar,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 17 (Sonbahar/Kış 2024).
Revived by Laughter
Nuar Alsadir
Essay & Interview
212 Magazine, Vol. 16 (Autumn/Winter 2023): 54-59
Translated by Özge Somersan into Turkish: “Kahkahayla Dirilmek,” 212 Magazine, Sayı 15 (Sonbahar/Kış 2023).
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).
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 & ACADEMIC REVIEWS
Review of Racquel J. Gates’s Double Negative: The Black Image in Popular Culture
Critical Inquiry Volume 46, Issue 3 (2020): 939-940.
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.
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.