Film reviews

• Ku! Kin-dza-dza! [Russia], dir.  Georgii Daneliia, KinoKultura 43 (Jan 2014)
  
• The PyraMMMid [Russia], dir. Eldar Salavatov, KunoKultura 35 (Oct 2012)
  
• The Dolls [Azerbaijan], dir. Chingiz Rasulzade, KinoKultura 31 (Jan 2011)
  

Book Reviews

• "Masha Gessen Journeys to a Jewish Land Without Jews" (on Masha Gessen's book about Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the USSR and Russia), The Forward (September 9, 2016)
  
• "Ex-Soviets Adopt America" (review of Boris Fishman's novel Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo), Los Angeles Review of Books (March 8, 2016)
• The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis, The New Republic (Sept. 19, 2014)

• "Russian American Jewish Lit Goes Boom!" (essay on novels by Boris Fishman, Anya Ulinich, Lara Vapnyar, and Ellen Litman), Tablet Magazine (June 17, 2014)
• Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart, Tablet Magazine (January 6, 2014)
• The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe by Olga Gershenson (Rutgers University Press, 2013), The Forward (Sept. 20, 2013)
• The Enigma of Isaac Babel, edited by Gregory Freidin (Stanford UP, 2009), The Russian Review (April 2013)
• The Man without a Face: An Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen, Lilith Magazine (Fall quarter, 2012; print and online editions)
• Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmila Ulitskaya (trans. Arch Tait), Tablet Magazine (June 29, 2011)