[Editor, with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz]: The Claims of Reading: The Shoshana Felman Reader. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

Five Editions of Rilke's Letters: on Life, on Letters, on Art, on Loss, on Faith with introductions. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 2006.

Das Rilke Alphabet. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. Forthcoming 2006.

Letters on Life: The Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke. Random House/ Modern Library 2005.

Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma. MIT Press. 2002.

110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. NYU Press; Editor of literary anthology of New York-based writers' and poets' responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Traumadeutung: Erfahrung der Moderne bei Charles Baudelaire und Paul Celan. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2002.

Translation of "Remnants of Song."  Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. Stanford University Press. 2000.

Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen: Zeugenschaft und historische Verantwortung nach der Shoah. Suhrkamp, 1999.

Essays:

"Seeing in the Future in an Image from the Past: Hannah Arendt, Garry Winogrand, and Photographing the World," Yearbook of Comparative Ltiterature, 2009 (volume 55)

"End of a World: On Thomas Demand's Photographs," in: L'Esprit d'escalier," IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, Ireland and Walter Koenig, Cologne: 2007) 82- 112.

"The Reluctant Modernism of Thomas Struth," in "Struth," Madre Museum, Naples, 2008, 85-97.

"Bring the Outside In: On Diti Almog," in Studio 173, May-June 2008, Tel Aviv.

"Paul Celan's Stars: Teaching 'Todesfuge' as a Canonical Holocaust Poem," in Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, eds. Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, New York: MLA, 2005.

"'Learning to Speak Like a Victim': Media and Authenticity in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde" in Gegenwartsliteratur. Contemporary Holocaust Images. South Atlantic Quarterly. 1997.

Sign and History in Baudelaire. Semiotics. 1995.

Photography and Hysteria: Toward a Poetics of the Flash. The Yale Journal of Criticism. 1994.