John Cullen translated more than twenty books from the French, Italian, German, and Spanish. His translations include Dominique Barbéris’s A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray, Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck, Carla Guelfenbein’s In the Distance with You, Juli Zeh’s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano’s Villa Triste, and Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation.