SHORT FICTION

“La Brea Tar Pits“, Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, 2025

“Dark Watchers“, The Los Angeles Review, 2025

“Invasive Species“, The Coachella Review, 2025

“The Scaffolding”, V&Q Books anthology of English-language short fiction about Berlin (forthcoming autumn 2026)

“The Virgin Martyr Speaks“, The Ekphrastic Review, 2024, nominated for Best Small Fictions 2025

“The Confessions of Château d’Hérouville”, Berlin Flash Fiction, 2023 (print only)

ON BOOKS, MUSIC AND FILM

“The Nazis, and all that jazz: A collage of memory from a Second World War adolescence“, Times Literary Supplement

On Donna Stonecipher’s The Ruins of Nostalgia, Seneca Review

On film noir and an algorithm, Paris Review Daily

“The lady vanishes“, Times Literary Supplement

“Staying alive: The enduring appeal of a band who were never hip“, Times Literary Supplement

On Kraftwerk: “Gesamtkunstwerk“, Times Literary Supplement

On Antje Strubel’s Blaue Frau, Times Literary Supplement

An archive of my pieces for the TLS from 2008 to 2024 (mainly on German-language literature — especially from the GDR and Austria — and, more recently, on pop music) is available at https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/jane-yager/

OTHER ESSAYS

“Swimming Class“, The New Inquiry

“Can German Atonement Teach Americans to Finally Face Slavery?” Narratively

“Miracle on 214th Street“, The New Inquiry

“Night Train to Freedom“, The Awl

LITERARY TRANSLATION

“Seance with the Stasi“, short story by Sarah Khan, Asymptote

“Partisan, Anti-Partisan, pARTisan, Party-Zan, Cyberpartisan: On the popularity of partisanhood in Belarusian culture”, essay by Nina Weller, in Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture

TRAVEL WRITING

Frommer’s German Phrasebook and Culture Guide (lead author)

Let’s Go: Eastern Europe (Poland author)

Let’s Go: Thailand (northern Thailand author)