Fiction:
Ingratitude, by Ying Chen. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998; paperback Univ. of California Press, 1999.
Childhood, by Patrick Chamoiseau. University of Nebraska Press, 1998; excerpted in The New Yorker, December, 1997.
The Stranger Next Door, by Amélie Nothomb. Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
Corruption, by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The New Press, October 1995; paperback October 1996.
Night Departure and No Place, by Emmanuel Bove. Four Walls Eight Windows, July 1995.
Racism Explained to my Daughter, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, The New Press, 1999; paperback 2006.
The History of Young People in the West, volume II, edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt. Harvard University Press, spring 1997.
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig by Claudine Fabre-Vassas, Columbia University Press, 1997; paperback 1999.
The Craft of Zeus: Textile and Text in the Greco-Roman World by John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro. Harvard University Press, 1996; paperback 2001.
The New Ecological Order by Luc Ferry. University of Chicago Press, July 1995, paperback 1995.
The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy. Harvard University Press, 1994; paperback 1996.
Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya by Nathan Wachtel. Univiversity of Chicago Press, 1994.
The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland. University of Chicago Press, 1993; paperback 1996. *(One of the 1993 Village Voice "Best Books of the Year").
The Taste for Beauty by Eric Rohmer. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Renoir on Renoir: Interviews with Jean Renoir. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Picasso: Collected Writings, Introduction by Michel Leiris (edited book and translated selected texts by Leiris and others). Abbeville Press, 1989.
Cultural Misunderstandings: the French-American Experience by Raymonde Carroll. University of Chicago Press, 1989, paperback 1999. *(Excerpted in The Longwood Reader, 1993, Simon & Schuster.)
Joze Plecnik: Architect 1872-1957, edited by Franτois Burkhardt, Claude Eveno and Boris Podrecca. The M.I.T. Press, 1989.
Asphyxiating Culture and Other Essays by Jean Dubuffet. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988.
Selected Translations in Journals:
--Grand Street, summer 1996, Hervé Guibert, "The Hammam."
--Voice Literary Supplement, June 1995, "The Worldly Philosopher," by Vincent Descombes.
--Grand Street, March 1995, interview with philosopher Paul Virilio, reprinted in Architectural Digest.
--Grand Street, fall 1993, excerpts from Louis Jouvet's Molière et la comédie classique.
--Open City, May 1993, excerpt from Emmanuel Bove, Night Departure.
--The Literary Review, summer 1993 (special Swiss issue), "Motionless at a Great Stride: In Praise of Folly and Some Swiss Vagabonds," by Nicolas Bouvier; "A Culture or a Nation?" by Etienne Barilier; "From the Fox to the Eubage: My Province that is Not a Province," by Maurice Chappaz.
Selected Children's Books:
Yok-Yok, twelve books and songs, illustrated by Etienne Delessert. The Creative Company, 1994.
Stravinsky by Achristophe Gallaz. The Creative Company, 1994.
Paris 1945, Childhood Memories of the War, by Jean-Louis Besson. The Creative Company, 1995.
Fun with Numbers, The Creative Company, 2003.
Earth, Sky and Beyong: A Journey Through Space by Jean-Pierre Verdet. Dutton, 1993.
Good Day, Mr. Gauguin by Michel Pierre. Chelsea House, 1993.
The Renaissance: The Invention of Perspective by Lilo Canto. Chelsea House, 1995.
Selected Awards, Panels, Articles:
–“The Art of Translation,” panelist, Chapters Bookstore, Washington, DC, 1998.
--"Making Translation Work: Publishers' Perspectives," panelist, The New School, May 1997, sponsored by PEN American Center.
--Lingua Franca, "Breakthrough Books," thoughts on translation, February 1997.
--National Arts Club, reading from Corruption, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, May 1996.
--"Literary Translation: The Author and His Translators"; panelist, April 1996, Tangier. Sponsored by the Ecole Supérieure de Traduction (Tangier).
--"The Making of A Translator, An Interview with Carol Volk" by Lee Fahnestock, Translation Review, January 1996.
--Witter-Bynner fellow, Yaddo, July 1996.
--Dewitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellow, MacDowell Colony, January-February 1996.
--"Translating Literary Non-Fiction"; panelist, ALTA conference, October 1995.
--"Francophone: Translating the Other French Literature"; panelist and reader, PEN American Center, May 1995.
--French Ministry of Culture Grant, 1994.
