Michael Eskin is an author, critic, translator, philosopher, publisher and co-founder of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., in New York City. He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. His books include: Nabokovs Version von Puskins “Evgenij Onegin”: eine übersetzungs- und fiktionstheoretische Untersuchung (1994); Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel’shtam, and Celan (2000); Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky (2008); 17 Vorurteile, die wir Deutschen gegen Amerika und die Amerikaner haben und die so nicht ganz stimmen können (2008; under the pseudonym Misha Waiman); The DNA of Prejudice: On the One and the Many (2010; Winner of the Next Generation Book Award for Social Change); The Wisdom of Parenthood (2013); Yoga for the Mind: An New Ethic for Thinking & Being (2013; with Kathrin Stengel, Winner of the Living Now Book Award); “Schwerer werden. Leichter sein” – Gespräche um Paul Celan. Mit Durs Grünbein, Gerhard Falkner, Aris Fioretos und Ulrike Draesner (2020); Descartes der Metapher: Neun Tauchgänge ins Dichterdasein Durs Grünbeins (2022); On Writing Philosophy: A Manifesto (2022);
Gespräch über Deutschland (2024; with Ulrike Draesner); Childhood: An Essay on the Human Condition (2024); The Emprise of Poetry: Durs Grünbein, America, Antisemitism, and the Pursuit of Liberty (2024) His essays, reviews and translations have appeared in TLS, World Literature Today and The New Yorker.
