Major Works

Bibliography

• The Grain of the Voice by Roland Barthes (Hill & Wang, 1985)
• Once Upon A Time: Visions of Old Japan by Chantal Edel (The Friendly Press, 1986)
• The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood by Molyda Szymusiak (Hill & Wang, 1986)
• Sweet Death by Claude Tardat (The Overlook Press, 1987)
• The Wedding by Yann Queffélec (Macmillan, 1987)
• Mortal Embrace: Living With AIDS by Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang, 1988)
• The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé (Viking Penguin, 1989)
• Out of Reach by Emmanuel Carrère (Macmillan, 1990)
• Lion Mountain by Mustapha Tlili (Arcade Publishing/Little by Brown & Company, 1990)
• To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert (Atheneum, 1991)
• Le Petit Garçon by Philippe Labro (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992)
• A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
• Compulsory Happiness by Norman Manea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
• The Traveler’s Tree by Bruno Bontempelli (The New Press, 1994)
• A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995)
• What the Night Tells the Day by Hector Bianciotti (The New Press, 1995)
• Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 1995)
• School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
• Naming the Jungle by Antoine Volodine (The New Press, 1996)
• Black Tunnel White Light by Philippe Labro (Kodansha America, 1997)
• Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 1997)
• Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1997)
• Literature or Life by Jorge Semprún (Viking, 1997)
• Rider on the Rain by Sébastien Japrisot (The Harvill Press, 1998)
• Shadows of a Childhood by Élisabeth Gille (The New Press, 1998)
• Mamzelle Dragonfly by Raphaël Confiant (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999)
• Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
• Lila Says by Chimo (Scribner, 1999)
• Undercurrents by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 2000)
• The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
• Speak You Also by Paul Steinberg (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
• My Forbidden Face by Latifa (Miramax Books, 2001)
• Stories by Mohammed Dib & Monique Agénor (The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001)
• This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (The New Press, 2001)
• The Absolute Perfection of Crime by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2002)
• Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (The New Press, 2003)
• Street of Lost Footsteps by Lionel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
• The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor (Miramax Books, 2004)
• Happy Days by Laurent Graff (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004)
• Massacre River by René Philoctète (New Directions, 2005)
• Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Serpent's Tail, 2005)
• The Lecture by Lydie Salvayre (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005)
• In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar Mai (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2006)
• Freedom by Malika Oufkir (Miramax Books, 2006)
• Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld (Other Press, 2007)
• Ravel by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2007)
• A French Life by Jean-Paul Dubois (Knopf, 2007)
• You Have Only One Picture Left by Laurent Graff (OuiDO! Entertainment, 2008)
• Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2008)
• Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras (The New Press, 2008)
• The Children of Heroes by Lionel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
• Running by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2009)
• The Antelope's Strategy by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
• Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2009)
• Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing by Marie Darrieussecq (L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 50, No. 3, Fall 2010)
• A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2010)
• My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2010)
• I Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced by Nujood Ali (Crown/Random House, 2010)
• A Tale of Two Martyrs by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Granta, 2011)
• Lives Other than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2011)
• There Are Things I Want You to Know… by Eva Gabrielsson (Seven Stories Press, 2011)
• Lightning by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2011)
• La Petite by Michèle Halberstadt (Other Press, 2012)
• The Suitors by Cécile David-Weill (Other Press, 2012)
• On Europa by Marie Darrieussecq (The Trunk, Les éditions Gallimard, 2013)
• The Art of Sleeping Alone by Sophie Fontanelle (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
• Consolation of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson (Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013)
• The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
• 1914 by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2014)
• Viviane by Julia Deck (The New Press, 2014)
• Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
• The Queen's Caprice by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2015)
• The Misty Harbor by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2015)
• The Emperor, C'est Moi by Hugo Horiot (Seven Stories Press, 2015)
• Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
• Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
• The Hand by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
• Julie's Life by Emmanuel Carrère (Granta, 2016)
• Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2017)
• New York Diary by Édouard Louis (Bomb Magazine, Fall 2017)
• Who Killed My Father? by Édouard Louis (Speech at Litteraturhuset, Oslo, October 2017)
• Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 2018)
• The Punishment by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Yale University Press, 2020)