Michael Eskin is an author, critic, translator, philosopher, publisher, and cofounder of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., in New York City. He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. His books include Nabokovs Version von Puškins “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: A 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); Discursive Osmosis: Essays on Language, Literature, and Philosophy (2026; forthcoming); and Anti-Zionism, Mistranslation, and the Problem of the Century: From W. E. B. Du Bois to Edward W. Said to Ta-Nehisi Coates (2026; forthcoming). His essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in TLS, World Literature Today, and The New Yorker.
