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Essays &
Book Reviews

"Prophets of the Underworld"
Ayin Press

"Writing Towards a Poetics of Aging" (on Erika Meitner's Useful Junk)
Literary Hub

Review of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry by Adriana X. Jacobs
In geveb

"Ghost or Not: On Lee Ann Roripaugh's 
tsunami vs. the fukushima 50"
Los Angeles Review of Books

"What Use Is Poetry in a Ravaged World?"(review of What Use Is Poetry, the Poet Is Asking by Rachel Tzvia Back) 
Lilith

"Wrestling with Faith in the Land of Oz" (Review of Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzburger) 
Forward

"War in the Language of Hope"(review of Croatian War Nocturnal by Spomenaka Štimec, trans. Sebastian Schulman)
Jewish Currents

"Like an Echo of Silence" (Review of On the Surface of Silence: the Last Poems of Lea Goldberg translated by Rachel Tzvia Back)
Jewish Review of Books

"A Harem of Translators" (Review of The Muses of Bashevis Singer, a film directed by Shaul Betser and Asaf Galay)
Jewish Review of Books

Review of Breathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris 
Chicago Tribune

"On First Encountering Doubt"
Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas 

"I'm still Here" (review of In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner translated by Rachel Tzvia Back) 
Jewish Review of Books

"Appelfeld in Bloom"
(review of Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld) 
Jewish Review of Books

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