He is the author of Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights (Harvard), Aladdin: A New Translation, with Yasmine Seale (Liveright/Norton, a Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year), and Cosmopolitanisms (NYU), with Bruce Robbins. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been translated into French, Portuguese, Turkish, and soon Chinese. He can be reached at paulo.horta@nyu.edu.