He is the author of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of both Adorno: A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader. He has written on the subject of twentieth century culture and politics for magazines and journals including The South Atlantic Quarterly, Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The Nation magazine, The New Statesman and al-Ahram. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Exiled in America: José Marti, Theodor Adorno, C.L.R. James, and Edward W. Said.