My first book was Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (OUP, 1985). I remain keenly interested in the modernist period (roughly 1890-1930) and in German-Jewish literature and Austrian literature from the eighteenth century to the present. In recent years I have become more interested in eighteenth-century and comparative literature (as in my Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine, OUP, 2009).  I recently published The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (London: Penguin, 2020; New York: HarperCollins, 2021). I have also reached out to the broader public with volumes on Kafka and Goethe in OUP’s Very Short Introductions series, and with translations of Hoffmann, Heine, Moritz and Kafka in the Oxford World’s Classics and Penguin Classics. My interests have recently spread to modern Scandinavian literature, which I am learning to read in the original languages.