— Lily Meyer

CRITICISM

I am a contributing writer at the Atlantic, reviewing a wide variety of literature. You can read my Atlantic pieces here and a selection of my work for other publications below:

On Deborah Baker’s Charlottesville and the roots of American fascism
On Mafalda, comics’ smartest six-year-old
On Princess Diana’s undying mystique
On Han Kang’s ghosts
On Damion Searls and reading like a translator
On Dinaw Mengestu and D.C. literature
On Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History and ways of writing the past
On Delmore Schwartz and being an American Jewish writer
On Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey and translation debates
On Lydia Davis and rejecting Amazon
On Sara Gallardo’s January and the abortion plot
On Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum and missing Salvador Allende
On Rachel Ingalls and eternal faith in men
On two new translations of the Polish-language poet Zuzanna Ginczanka
On Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog and when meaning doesn’t matter
On Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost and the power of art
On Luiz Schwarcz’s The Absent Moon and not interpreting everything
On the trouble with Nona Willis Aronowitz’s Bad Sex
On Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs and keeping familiar modes fresh
On the paths translated literature takes to U.S. publication
On eager vs. reluctant translation
On Elisa Shua Dusapin’s The Pachinko Parlor and the fuzzy edges of language
On Tove Ditlevsen and translating genius
On The Murders of Moisés Ville and stories of Jewish victimhood
On David Kurnick and the Bolaño mystique
On Amia Srinivasan and useful feminism
On translating Little Bird
On translation, cooking, and endless work
On translation and selfishness
On Career & Family and the gender pay gap
On love and translation - also translated into Dutch for the translation journal Filter