A Jew on Horseback: Isaac Babel in Russia and America (Stanford University Press, forthcoming)

"Justifying the Revolution as an Aesthetic Phenomenon," Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary, ed. by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (Oxford University Press, 1994). The Russian version: "Babel': Revoliutsiia kak esteticheskii fenomen," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 4 (Moscow, 1993).

"Isaak Babel," European Writers: The Twentieth Century (New York: Scribners, 1990)

"Вопрос Возвращения: Великий перелом и Запад в биографии И. Э. Бабеля начала 1930-х годов" (Between the Stalin Revolution and the West: Isaac Babel's Career in the early 1930s) . Stanford Slavic Studies 4-2, 1991

"La 'grande svolta'. L'Occidente e l'Italia nella biografia di I.E. Babel all'inizio degli anni '30." Special issue of Storia contemporanea 6 (1991): Intelletuali e cultura antidemocratica tra le due guerra mondiali.

"Fat Tuesday in Odessa: Isaac Babel's 'Di Grasso' as Testament and Manifesto," The Russian Review 40, no. 2 (April 1981):101-21. An abbreviated version reprinted in Isaac Babel, ed. and with an intro. by Harold Bloom (NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987)