Wandering Stars

For his very first column, Moser wrote about four books, which together give you a sense of the literary, historical, and political topics that have preoccupied him.

Those four books, Wandering Stars, an English translation of a Yiddish novel by Sholem Aleichem, Armenian Golgotha, A History of the Armenian Genocide, Mahmoud Mamdani's Saviors and Survivors, Darfur Politics and the War on Terror, and C.P. Cavafy's Collected Poems.

Moser has also contributed essays and reviews to the New York Times Book Review, to the Nation magazine, and to Liberties, the excellent journal of culture and politics, edited by Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus.

The same year he began writing the New Books column at Harper's, Moser published his own first new book.