Irina has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hartford Courant, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Forward, Denver Post, The Moscow Times, and other publications. She was formerly the Books Editor for the online magazine, Killing the Buddha.
Selected book criticism by Irina Reyn
- Review of Mark Oppenheimer’s Squirrel Hill, New York Times Book Review
- Review of Patrick Flanery’s I Am No One, San Francisco Chronicle
- Review of Tod Goldberg’s Other Resort Cities, Los Angeles Times
- Review of Mary Gaitskill’s Don’t Cry, Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Review of Nathaniel Rich’s The Mayor’s Tongue, Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Review of Chris Abani’s Song For Night, Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Shadow Cities: For Andre Aciman, There’s No Place Like Home, Tablet
- Review of Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name, San Francisco Chronicle
- Review of Elizabeth Rosner’s Blue Nude, The Forward
- Review of Lara Vapnyar’s Memoirs of a Muse, The Moscow Times
- Review of Kathryn Davis’s The Thin Place, San Francisco Chronicle
- Review of Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes, San Francisco Chronicle
- Review of Diane Middlebrook’s Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage
- Review of two Yiddish anthologies, Killing the Buddha, originally appeared in The Forward.
- Review of Adam Johnson’s Emporium, San Francisco Chronicle