His published work includes articles on Russian Jewish writers David Bergelson and Isaac Babel, a critical introduction and notes to the English-language translation of Moyshe Kulbak's Soviet Yiddish novel The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga (Yale University Press, 2013), as well as on contemporary fiction by Russian Jewish émigré authors in the United States. In collaboration with Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson's Soviet Yiddish novel Judgment, forthcoming with the translators' critical introduction and notes from Northwestern University Press (2017). He has also written on Russian Jewish literature and culture for The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet Magazine, The Jewish Daily Forward, and The New Yorker's Page-turner blog.