Selected Full Text Articles

“Performing a Perpetrator as Witness: Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes.” in After Testimony: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future, ed. J. Lothe, S.R. Suleiman and J. Phelan. Ohio State U.P., 2012, pp. 99-119. Link to Article

“Orphans of the Holocaust and Jewish Identity in Post-Holocaust France.” In Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, eds. Seán Hand and Steven T. Katz, New York: NYU Press, 2015.

Other Selected Articles

“The 1.5 Generation: Thinking About Child Survivors and the Holocaust,” American Imago, 59.3 (Fall 2002), pp. 277-295. Link to Article

“Culture, Aestheticism and Ethics: Sontag and the Idea of Europe.” PMLA, 120:3 (2005), pp. 839-842. Link to Article

“Ontology and Politics: Representations of Communists in Sartre’s Fiction and Theater.” Journal of Romance Studies, 6:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2006), pp. 127-142.  Link to Article

“‘Oneself as Another’: Identification and Mourning in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder.” Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 31.2 (Summer 2007), pp. 325-350. Link to Article

“Suite Française and Les Bienveillantes, Two ‘Literary Exceptions’: A Conversation.” (with Richard J. Golsan), Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 12:3 (August 2008), pp. 321-330.

“Memory Troubles: Remembering the Occupation in Simone de Veauvoir’s Les Mandarins.” French Politics, Culture and Society, special issue, 28:2 (Summer 2010), pp. 4-17.  Link to Article

“Irène Némirovsky and the ‘Jewish Question’ in Interwar France.” Yale French Studies,  no. 54, numéro Irène Némirovsky, Dec. 2012, pp. 54-74.  Link to Article

“The Stakes in Holocaust Representation: On Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds,” Romanic Review, Vol. 105:1-2 (Jan.-March 2014), pp. 58-70. Link to Article

“Humor, Parody, and the Quest for Jewish Identity in Modiano’s La Place de l’Étoile,” Yale French Studies, no. 133 (2018), pp. 58-70.  Link to Article

Selected Poetry, Translations, and Autobiographical Essays

“A Postcard to Zircz,” Harvard Review, No. 24 (Spring 2003), pp. 112-121. Hungarian translation in Szombat, 16:8 (October 2004), pp. 26-29.

“The Silver Pin.” In Evocative Objects, ed. Sherry Turkle, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. pp. 184-192. Reprinted in The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art,  ed. Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein.  Link to Essay

 

Selected Book Reviews

“A Novel Written During the Holocaust Roars into the Present?” [Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky]. The Boston Globe. April 30, 2006. Link to Book Review

“Summer of ’42 in Rural France: Newly Discovered by Némirovsky Centers on Passions and Betrayals”[ Fire in the Blood, by Irène Némirovsky].  The Boston Globe, November 4, 2007.Link to Book Review

“Diary of a Young Woman before the Holocaust Took Her Life.” [The Journal of Hélene Berr]. The Boston Globe. January 28, 2009. “G” Section, p. 11.  Link to Book Review

“Raising Hell” [The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell], The Boston Globe, March 15, 2009, Sunday “Ideas” section, lead book review.  Link to Book Review

“French contentions” [For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus, by Frederick Brown], The New York Times Book Review, February 7, 2010, p. 13.  Link to Book Review

“A Childhood in War.” [Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward], The Boston Globe, April 29, 2012. “Ideas” section p. K5.  Link to Book Review

“The Postcolonial.” [Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus] New York Times Book Review, May 12, 2013, p. 32.  Link to Book Review

“The Deconstructionist Deconstructed.” [The Double Life of Paul DeMan, by Evelyn Barish] New York Times Book Review, March 7, 2014, p. 14.  Link to Book Review

“A Vision of Decency and Hope: Why James McBride Is Today’s Charles Dickens” [The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride], Moment Magazine online, Feb. 15, 2024. Link to Book Review