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Selected publications available online:
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“How
different really are atheists and believers?” [Review of “Seven
Types of Atheism,” by John Gray], in
Washington Post,
16 November 2018.
“Laughing More Loudly,” in Times Literary Supplement, No. 6017 (27 July, 2018)
"Are We Doomed to Fail?" in Philosophy for Our Times, 12 January 2018
"Philosphy Needs a New Definition," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 17 December, 2017 (Also in Chinese)
"Why We Fail and How," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 September, 2017 (Also in Chinese)
“Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn from Film,” in Aeon, 3 July, 2017 (Also in Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)
“Our Delight in Destruction,” in New York Times, 27 March, 2017 (Also in Vietnamese)
“The Philosopher of Failure,” in Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 November 2016 (Also in Spanish, Chinese, Turkish)
"Why do anything?," in New York Times, 17 September, 2016 (Also in Chinese, Turkish, Serbian, Vietnamese)
"Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility," in Aeon, 18 August, 2016 (Also in Arabic, Hebrew)
"A Continental Mind" [Review of The Idea of Europe, by George Steiner], in Spiked Review (May 2016) (Also in Chinese)
“Existentialism and Sartre captured spirit of the times” [Review of The Existentialist Moment, by Patrick Baert], in The Australian, 20 February, 2016.
"Body of Work: The Dying Philosopher," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 27 September, 2015.
(with Robert Zaretsky), "The Idea of Europe," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 August, 2015 (Also in German)
“Change Comes From the Margins,” in New York Times, 30 June, 2015 (Also in Vietnamese)
"Why People are Willing to Die for an Idea," in Washington Post, 18 June, 2015 (Also in Chinese)
"Dada Life" [Review of TaTa Dada, by Marius Hentea], in Times Literary Supplement, 22 May, 2015 (Reprint in The Wall Street Journal).
"Philosophy as a Bloody Affair," in The European Magazine, 18 May, 2015 (Also in Hungarian, Chinese, Farsi)
"In Defense of Margins," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 May, 2015.
"The Wisdom of the Exile," in New York Times, 16 August, 2014 (Also in Vietnamese)
"The Two Abysses of the Soul," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 31 July, 2014 (Also in Portuguese).
"I survived the Nazis. And Soviets" [Review of The Hooligan's Return, by Norman Manea], in The Daily Beast, 6 April, 2014 (Also in Kurdish).
“Herta Müller’s Language of Resistance,” in Boston Review, 18 March, 2014 (Also in Spanish, Kurdish)
"In Praise of Failure," in New York Times, 15 December, 2013 (Also in Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, German, Farsi).
“Oh, the Delight” [Review of The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990, by Harold B Segel, Ed.], in Times Literary Supplement, No. 576 (6 September, 2013).
"Born Again in a Second Language," in New York Times, 4 August, 2013 (Also in German, Spanish, Chinese, Kurdish, Farsi)
“Penetrating Philosopher Loves a Paradox” [Review of The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Philosophy, by Simon Critchley], in The Australian, 4 May, 2013.
"Sublime and not too serious" [Review of Internationala mea. Cronica unei vieti, by Ion Ianosi], in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5736 (8 March, 2013), p. 27. (Also in Romanian)
"Half-lives in the Shadow of Starvation" [Review of The Hunger Angel, by Herta Müller], in The Australian, 1 February, 2013 (Also in Kurdish)
"Philosophy as an Art of Living," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 14 February, 2012
"The Political Psychology of Self-Immolation," in The New Statesman, 17 September, 2012 (Also in Spanish)
“Snail
in Babel” [Review-essay on The Lair & The Fifth
Impossibility. Essays on Exile and Language, both by Norman Manea],
in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5709 (31 August, 2012)
Review of Introduction to Antiphilosophy, by Boris Groys, in Times Higher Education, 26 July, 2012
"The Politics of Tibetan Self-Immolations," on CNN.com (CNN Opinion), 28 March, 2012
"Caught in Quarrels with God" [Review of The Terror of God, by Navid Kermani], in The Australian, 25 February, 2012.
Review of Anti-Nietzsche, by Malcolm Bull, in Times Higher Education, 19 January, 2012
"Scaling the 'Wall in the Head'," in New York Times, 27 November, 2011 (Also in Spanish, Portuguese).
Review of American Nietzsche. A History of An Icon and His Ideas, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, in Times Higher Education, 3 November, 2011.
"Philosophy As an Art of Dying," in New York Times, 12 June, 2011 (Also in Spanish).
"A Light for the Future: On the Political Uses of a Dying Body," in Dissent, 23 May, 2011 (Also in Hungarian).
"Ladri di Parole," in Lettera43 (Quotidiano Online Indipendente), 7 March, 2011 [in Italian] (Also in Romanian)
"Why Bouazizi burning set Arab world afire" [op-ed piece], The Christian Science Monitor, 8 February, 2011
"Uprising in Tunisia: a political act of self-immolation" [op-ed piece], in The Globe & Mail, 31 January, 2011
"Quixotic Being" [Review of Six Maladies of the Contemporary Spirit by Constantin Noica], in Times Literary Supplement, No 5621 (24 December, 2010), p. 36.
Review of Occurrence in the Immediate Reality by Max Blecher, in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5601 (6 August 2010), p. 26.
"The Evil of Banality" [Review of The Appointment, by Herta Müller], in The Globe & Mail (13 February 2010)
"In Shambles" [Review of Searching for Cioran, by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston], in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5558 (9 October 2009), p. 9.
"Fascinating Life of a Philosopher Martyr" [Review of Giordano Bruno. Philosopher/Heretic, by Ingrid Rowland], in The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15, 2009.