Criticism

'And Their Children After Them' by Nicolas Mathieu. Orion. Summer 2020.

On Axiomatic, essays by Maria Tumarkin. On the Seawall. November 5, 2019.

'Opioid, Indiana,' by Brian Allen Carr. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 25, 2019.

Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (trans. by Frank Wynne). Orion. Autumn 2019.

'White Flights,' by Jess Row. Minneapolis Star-Tribune. August 4, 2019.

Dreaming in Exile: on Springtime In A Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti & China Dream by Ma Jian. On the Seawall, June 25, 2019.

'Another Kind of Madness,' by Ed Pavlic. Minneapolis Star-Tribune. April 30, 2019.

On Mac’s Problem, a novel by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes. On the Seawall, April 30, 2019

31 Books in 30 Days: David Varno on Denis Johnson. LitHub, February 14, 2019

31 Books in 30 Days: David Varno on Lacy M. Johnson. LitHub, February 11, 2019

'White,' by Deni Ellis Béchard. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 22, 2018

'This Mournable Body,' by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, August 10, 2018

Uncured of Myself: John Edgar Wideman's American Histories. Brooklyn Rail, July 2018

Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man. Brooklyn Rail, June 2018

Dude, What’s My Age Again? Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down: Essays. Brooklyn Rail, March 2018

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter. Brooklyn Rail, Dec-Jan 2017/2018

Rodrigo Hasbún’s Affections. Words Without Borders, September 2017

Juan Villoro's The Reef. Brooklyn Rail, September 2017

Leaps of Faith: The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrére. Brooklyn Rail, June 2017

Savage Theories by Pola Oloixarac. Words Without Borders, January 2017

Scrapper by Matt Bell. Brooklyn Rail, October 2015

NBCC Reads: Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus. Critical Mass, September 2014

Lost & Found: On Janet Frame's Faces in the Water. Tin House, Fall 2013

Sergio Chejfec’s The Dark. Words Without Borders, November 2013

NBCC Reads: White Noise. Critical Mass, November 2013

Speedboat and Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. Paste, June 2013

Red Doc by Ann Carson. Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 26, 2013

Middle C by William Gass. Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 6, 2013

Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home. Words Without Borders, January 2013

Tenth of December by George Saunders. Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 10, 2013

NBCC Reads: Jernigan by David Gates. Critical Mass, February 2012

New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, translated by Mark Ford. Words Without Borders, October 2011

Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses. Words Without Borders, June 2011

I Looked Alive by Gary Lutz. BOMBLog, April 7, 2011

Joyrides From the Darkroom of History: C by Tom McCarthy. BOMBLog, September 2010

Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp. Words Without Borders, June 2010

Roberto Bolaño, Monsieur Pain. Words Without Borders, February 2010

Kleist and the Confusion of Affects: New Translations. Words Without Borders, January 2010

Gérard de Nerval’s The Salt Smugglers. Words Without Borders, October 2009

Savage by Jacques Jouet. BOMBLog, September 2009

Frederick Seidel’s Poems: 1959–2009. BOMBLog, May 2009

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place. BOMBLog, April 2009

Dunya Mikhail, translated by Eliabeth Winslow, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. Brooklyn Rail, April 2009

I Believe, I Believe: Ruins, A Novel by Achy Obejas. BOMBLog March 2009

Lowboy by John Wray. BOMBLog, March 2009

Jim Harrison, The English Major. Brooklyn Rail, October 2008

It Still Moves by Amanda Petrusich. Bookslut, September 2008

A Gentleman's Guide To Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie. Bookslut, May 2008

Ron Hansen, Exiles. Brooklyn Rail, May 2008

Son Lux. Brooklyn Rail, May 2008

Shellshag. Brooklyn Rail, April 2008

Small Lives by Pierre Michon. Brooklyn Rail, April 2008

Roberto Bolaño, trans. by Chris Andrews, Nazi Literature in the Americas. Brooklyn Rail, February 2008

Collective Memory: Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words translated by Susan Bernofsky. Brooklyn Rail, December 2007

Flaw by Magdalena Tulli, translated by Bill Johnston. Brooklyn Rail, November 2007

Stars Like Fleas. Brooklyn Rail, September 2006

An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Kenny Wollesen and His Marching Band at Zebulon. Brooklyn Rail, March 2006

The Wild, Wild East: Captured by Clayton Patterson. Brooklyn Rail, December 2005

Memoir: An Outsider's Journey. A Literary Profile of Lee Stringer. Brooklyn Rail, October 2005

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