biography, fiction, philosophy, poetry, translation
Author of The Philosophy of Translation
(long review-essay in The New Yorker: What Does a Translator Do?)
and Analog Days (novel): New Yorker Best Books of 2025
Translator of Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature:
Septology, Vaim, Melancholy I-II, Aliss at the Fire, A Shining
New in 2025:
Jon Fosse, Vaim: another Best Book of 2025 in The New Yorker
Poetry: The Mariner’s Mirror
The Third Reich of Dreams — “Essential reading” (Zadie Smith)
“Translators Lydia Davis, Tim Parks, Ann Goldstein, Damion Searls, and others now verge on being literary household names.” — The Nation
Robert Walser poems about Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann
Ariane Koch, Overstaying
Wittgenstein, Tractatus (“Not just another translation” — Percival Everett)
Victoria Kielland, My Men — a Best Book of 2023
(NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Review, Crime Reads)
boygenius approved: “Young Once is the most French book I’ve ever read… I loved it.” — Lucy Dacus in Vogue, via Lithub
Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Prize
A Shining: A New Yorker best book of the year
“ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 A perfect introduction”
Septology: Named a best book of the year by
The New Yorker, Bookforum, TLS, The Irish Times
Finalist for the International Booker Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award
The Inkblots chosen as a Best Book of the Year by NPR
“Marvelous” —David Grann
“Genuinely fascinating” —NY Times
“Amazing... Funny, compassionate, unfailingly attentive”
—Elif Batuman
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