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The Revolution in Art
The Washington Post
July 6, 2008
Mean Streets: Bullets over the Beltway
The Washington Times
February 17, 2006
Stanley Clarke: His Bass is Hit
The Washington Times
December 3, 2005
Nabokov's Power Hangs on Lolita
The Washington Times
November 3, 2005
D.C. Suits Embrace Warhol
The Washington Times
October 10, 2005
Peyroux's Love is Not Deep
The Washington Times
September 27, 2005
'Dukes'' Hazzard a Trailer Utopia
The Washington Times
August 5, 2005
Pink Martini hosts eclectic happy hour
The Washington Times
June 29, 2005
Rev. Al Green shows his soul
The Washington Times
June 28, 20005
America's Favorite Bug Beats Dark Past
The Washington Times
June 17, 2005
Ugly Duckling Grows Up:
Darker View of Danish Storyteller Andersen
The Washington Times
April 30, 2005
Who's Your Dada?
The Washington Times
April 22, 2005
Audience Swarms to Mosquitos' Singer
The Washington Times
April 19, 2005
De-Lovely, Delightful, D-elitist: Cannes 2004
The Washington Times
May 27, 2004
Pastiched to Perfection:
Diana Krall, "The Girl in the Other Room"
The Washington Times
April 23, 2004
Literary Wake for Joyce’s Ulysses
The Washington Times
March 12, 2004
Has Indie Died, Gone to Hollywood?
The Washington Times
February 27, 2004
Jones’ Unknown Washington
The Washington Times
November 14, 2003

Lines Blur in Jazz
The Washington Times
June 2, 2003

Arg, Aerger, Argentinien
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
March 21, 2003
Nominated for the 2004 Hansel-Mieth Prize
for best magazine feature writing

Reply to Adam Garfinkle, "Of Piffle and Petit Grandeur"
In the National Interest
December 4, 2002
Wag the Dove: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Wins on Peace – And Little Else
In the National Interest
September 25, 2002
Are We Almost There Yet?
Europe has Something for Everyone - Even Kids
Newsweek
June 25, 2001 (36.0KB)
Still Life
Washington City Paper
May 18-24, 2001
Cover Story (79.0KB)
German Fictions: An Exchange
The National Interest
Winter, 2000

The High Price of Modernization
The Baltimore Sun
September 7, 1998

Animal Art: Is It Genious or Total Hokum?
The Baltimore Sun
July 28, 1998

Country Music, Bangkok Style
The Baltimore Sun
May 25, 1998

Thailand Faces Building Epidemic
The Baltimore Sun
February 9, 1998

Das Recht, Beweise zu Ignorieren
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
August 16-17, 1997

Interethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Tuva
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 18, No. 1, January 1995

Hunting for a Heritage: Post-Soviet Yakutiya
The World Today
April 1992

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Fiction
Sibirischer Schwindel
Non-Fiction
Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality
Photo Book
Heartlands: Sketches of Rural America
Photos by Andreas Horvath with text by Lech Kowalski, Monika Muskala and Stefan Sullivan

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