“Smell the burn: What is the point of physical exercise?” Times Literary Supplement, September 17, 2021.
- Featured in Arts & Letters Daily‘s Nota Bene.
“The Beauty of Imperfection.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 26, 2021.
“A Heroine’s Journey: On Lana Bastašić’s “Catch the Rabbit”.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 18, 2021.
- Included in LARB‘s Spotlight on Translation
“Don’t Get Too Comfortable.” New York Review of Books, May 27, 2021.
“When You Roast Your Friends in a Book, and One’s Your Landlord.” The New York Times, May 3, 2021.
“The Flower and the Bee.” London Review of Books, April 22, 2021.
“Let us now tell sad stories.” Times Literary Supplement, March 12, 2021.
“Dudes Without Heirs.” New York Review of Books, December 3, 2020.
“Time travelling in comfort.” Times Literary Supplement, November 27, 2020.
“How to Read Aloud.” London Review of Books, September 10, 2020.
- Audio version by Audm.
“In Praise of Solitude.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 28, 2020.
- Featured in Arts & Letters Daily’s New Books.
- One of LARB‘s 15 most-read pieces of 2020.
“Making My Moan.” London Review of Books, May 7, 2020.
- Featured in Longreads, “The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts,” by Aaron Gilbreath
- Included in Longreads‘ “This Week in Books“
“Quiet magic: The best ways to cultivate good writing.” The Times Literary Supplement (lead cover story), March 6, 2020.
- Featured in Longreads, “Teaching Writing and Breaking Rules,” by Aaron Gilbreath.
“Theater of War.” The New York Times, February 12, 2020.
“Cooking as a profound art.” The Times Literary Supplement, December 20 and 27, 2019.
“Heel turns.” The Times Literary Supplement (lead cover story), September 20, 2019.
- Featured in Longreads, “A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’,” by Aaron Gilbreath.
- Featured in Arts & Letters Daily‘s Essays & Opinions.
- Featured on Perlentaucher.de, Magazinrundschau
- Featured in BmoreArt’s The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
- Published in Latvian as “Slaveni ar to, ka ir slaveni,” in Rigas Laiks, February 2020.
- Included among the Times Literary Supplement‘s September 2019 Highlights
“Door Open for Beauty: On Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2019.
- Included in LARB’s Best: Fiction
“Renaissance Man.” The New York Times, June 2, 2019.
- Published in Spanish as “Memorial de los libros naufragados,” in El Cultural, November 11, 2019.
“Physical, cultural, personal: The demands of dance.” The Times Literary Supplement (lead cover story), February 1, 2019.
“Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage.” The New York Times, January 6, 2019.
“Literature as Lifeline: The Exile in “Call Me Zebra”.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 18, 2018.
Shorts
“Somewhat cheery.” (In Brief review of A Cheerful Soul and other stories, by Hersh Dovid Nomberg.) The Times Literary Supplement, May 21, 2021.
“Rings of Sarajevo.” (In Brief review of My Heart, by Semezdin Mehmedinović.) The Times Literary Supplement, March 26, 2021.
“Stifled by cookie-cutters.” (In Brief review of So You Want to Publish a Book?, by Anne Trubek). Times Literary Supplement, February 5, 2021.
“Old love, new tricks.” (In Brief review of Tristan & Isolde, newly translated by William Whobrey). Times Literary Supplement, December 4, 2020.
“Homely ceremonies.” (In Brief review of How to Cook a Wolf, by MFK Fisher). Times Literary Supplement, October 30, 2020.
“Dance Macabre.” (In Brief review of What You Become In Flight, by Ellen O’Connell Whittet) The Times Literary Supplement, May 1, 2020.
“Dance.” (In Brief review of Isadora, by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie) The Times Literary Supplement, April 17, 2020.
“Electric conversations: Twenty-five writers reflect on the magazines and journals they have enjoyed over the years.” Times Literary Supplement, October 25, 2019.
“Old English” (In Brief review of Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature, by Tristan Major). The Times Literary Supplement, January 11, 2019.
Irina Dumitrescu 