2020
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- Review – on On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Ron Slate’s On the Seawall, May 26, 2020)
- Review – Honkaku Mysteries (coming soon)
- Review – Hwang Sok-yong’s Fiction: A Country on the Cusp of Change (Guernica, March 31, 2020)
- Review – The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda / Riku Ando and the Honkaku Mystery (The Los Angeles Review of Books, March 25, 2020)
- Review – Lux by Elizabeth Cook (Ron Slate’s On the Seawall, February 4, 2020)
2019
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- Review – Seven Samurai Swept Away In a River by Jung Young Moon (Barrelhouse, December 26, 2019)
- Review – Antihero City – The Night of Rome by Carlo Bonini & Giancarlo De Cataldo (The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 10, 2019)
- Review – The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec (Ron Slate’s On the Seawall, October 1, 2019)
- Review – The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman (Barrelhouse, September 16, 2019)
- Review – Anthony Horowitz Investigates – The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz (The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 14, 2019)
- Review – Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin (Ron Slate’s On the Seawall, August 6, 2019)
- Review – Pretty Things by Virginie Despentes (Barrelhouse, May 9, 2019)
- Why This Book Should Win: Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipous (Three Percent, April, 2019)
2018
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- 2019 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Judge
- Review – Tilting At Windmills – Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama (The Los Angeles Review of Books, December 24, 2018)
- Review – NBCC Reads: Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet (National Book Critics Circle, December 29, 2018)
- Review – The Geography of Rebels Trilogy by Maria Gabriela Llansol (The Quarterly Conversation, December 17, 2018)
- Review – The Inhumanity of Isolation- The Governesses by Anne Serre (Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 31, 2018)
- Review – Messy Human Beings – In the Distance With You by Carla Guelfenbein (The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 31, 2018)
- Review – We Kiss Them With Rain by Futhi Ntshingili (Necessary Fiction, August 20, 2018)
- Interview Series – The Craft of Criticism: A Q&A Series that asks book critics and review editors for their thoughts about contemporary criticism. (National Book Critics Circle: Critical Mass, July-October 2018)
- Review – Through a Child’s Eyes: Mystery and Longing in Masatsugu Ono’s Lion Cross Point (3:AM Magazine, April 26, 2018)
- Review – Who To Believe? – The Wife by Alafair Burke (The Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2, 2018)
2017
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- 2018 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Judge
- Review – The Sacred Era by Yoshio Aramaki (Quarterly Conversation, December 11, 2017)
- Review – The Provocateur’s Spirit – My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye (The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 25, 2017)
- Review – Han Yujoo, Wild Child of the South Korean Literary Scene (The Rumpus, March 20, 2017)
- Review – Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga (Quarterly Conversation, March 13, 2017)
2016
- Book Boxes & Subscriptions: A Gift Guide (Book Riot, December 14, 2016)
- The Problem With Biography (Book Riot, December 13, 2016)
- Top 5 Reasons You Want To Add More Translations To Your TBR Pile (Book Riot, October 26, 2016)
- Everyone Step Away From The Italian Reporter… Putting Ferrante In Perspective (Book Riot, October 5, 2016)
- Four Book Recommendations Inspired by the Artist, Agnes Martin (Book Riot, October 2, 2015)
- Review – The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers (The Rumpus, September 5, 2016)
- Seriously, Leave Me & My #$%@ Books Alone (Book Riot, August 30, 2016)
- Interviews – Women In Translation Month: Moving Forward (Book Riot, August 23, 2016)
- Cult Writers: 3 Books By Cesar Aira (Book Riot, August 4, 2016)
- Welcome To Thieve’s World, The Series That Will Tide You Over While You Wait For GOT (Book Riot, August 2, 2016)
- Anthologies Make For Easy Summer Reading (Book Riot, June 25, 2016)
- Can A Book Really Transport You To Another Country? (Book Riot, May 16, 2016)
- My Reading Life In Epigraphs (Book Riot, May 5, 2016)
- Review – Drowned & The Other Woman by Therese Bohman (The Quarterly Conversation, March 14, 2016)
- Review – Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (The Rumpus, February 11, 2016)
2015
- Review – Soundcheck: Tales from the Balkan Conflict by Miguel-Anxo Murado & This War of Mine by 11 bit studios (The Rumpus, October 19, 2015)
- 2015 PEN World Voices Festival Panelist – Who We Talk About When We Talk About Translation: The Bloggers
- Interview – A Conversation With Book Blogger Tara Cheesman (The Spark, March 5, 2015)
- 2015 Women In Translation Month – participant
- Panelist on the shadow jury for the 2015 DSC Prize
2014
- Review – The Dark by Sergio Chejfec (Necessary Fiction, January 6, 2014)
- 2014 Women In Translation Month – participant
2013
- Blog Series – The Rise of the Short Story
- Podcast – 2x guest on the Mookse & the Gripes podcast to discuss the year’s Best Translated Book Award and Nancy Mitford’s The Sun King
- Review – Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (LitKicks, July 30, 2013)
- Review – 18% Gray by Zachary Karabashliev (Necessary Fiction, March 4, 2013)
2012
- Review – Remembering Che by Aleida March (Litkicks, July 11, 2012)
- Guest – Triple Choice Tuesday: BookSexy Review (Reading Matters, April 10, 2012)
- Review excerpted – Flashcards by Yu Jian (Harriet: the Poetry Foundation’s blog, February 9, 2012)
- Podcast – guest on The Readers podcast as part of their Summer Book Club
- Blog Tour – hosted the Walter Moers’ Blog Tour
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