Publications

2005
2005. Leont’ev, Ia and M. Iunge, comps. Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo politkatorzhan i ssyl’noposelentsev: Obrazovanie, razvitie, likvidatsiia, 1921-1935. Russian Review, 64(4), pp.706-707.
2005. Nabokov’s Worldview. In The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Ed. Julian Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 232-47.
2005. Review of Anne Appelbaum’sGulag: A History (in Hebrew). Haaretz, (April 13), p.Sfarim 1, 4.Abstract
English Version: "One Hundred Years of Evil," Haaretz English Edition, April 15: B8
2005. Review of “S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine.” Directed by Rithy Panh. American Historical Review, 111(5), pp.1508-1509.
2005. Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov’s Art of Testimony. Poetics Today, 26(2), pp.281-303.
2004
2004. Anatolii Kuznetsov. In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman (Gale), pp. 195-200.
2004. On the Legitimacy of Comparisons: The Gulag ‘Goner’ and the Auschwitz Muselmann(in Russian). In Jews and Slavs. Festschrift for Professor Ilya Serman. Jerusalem/Moscow: Gesharim?Mosty kul’ture, pp. 325-30.
2004. Love, That Four-Letter Word: A Response to Amanpal Garcha. Connotations, 13(1-2), pp.105-110.
2004. Review ofDonald T. Critchlow and Agnieszka Critchlow, eds. Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag; Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson, Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag. Russian Review, 63(2), p.354.
2004. Vocation and Sympathy in Daniel Deronda: The Self and the Larger Whole. Victorian Literature and Culture, 32(2), pp.565-74.
2003
2003. Discourse of Testimony: Review of Conversations with Ka-Tsetnik by Yehiel Szeintuch (in Hebrew). Haaretz, (March 19), p.Sfarim 1, 7.
2003. Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol: Doing Things in Style. In Nabokov at Cornell. Ed. G. Shapiro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 136-47.
2003. Review ofRichard Freadman, Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will. Partial Answers, 1(2), pp.168-72.
2002
2002. Conspicuous Leisure and Invidious Sexuality in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Connotations, 11(2-3), pp.222-40.Abstract
Reprinted, with some revision, in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction
2002. Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity. In Nabokov’s World. Ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin and Priscilla Meyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 132-40.
2001
2001. Afterword (in Hebrew). In T. S. Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Herbrew translation by Ruth Blumert. Tel Aviv: Keshev, pp. 51-59.
2001. A Brief History of Ekwilism. In Critical Interfaces: Contributions in Philosophy, Literature and Culture in Honour of Herbert Grabes. Ed. Gordon Collier, Klaus Schwank and Franz Wieselhuber. Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, pp. 333-41.
2000
2000. Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’ and Shalamov’s ‘The Artist of the Spade’: The Discourse of Lent. In Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 277-91.Abstract
Revised and reprinted, along with the translation (by N. Strazhas) of Shalamov’s "The Artist of the Spade" in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 179-190 and 191-201.
2000. The Private Domain and the Domain of Limited Access in Nabokov’s Autobiography (in Russian). Révue des Études Slaves, 72(3-4), pp.415-21.
Toker, L., 2000. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.