In 2013, Douglas wrote about Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Nashiri for Harper's Magazine.
[2] Douglas reviews books on legal topics for the Times Literary Supplement[3] and is a contributing writer for The Guardian.
[4] He has received fellowships[5] from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Institute for International Education, and the Carnegie Corporation.
[7] Douglas has appeared in several documentaries, including The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018),[8] the TV mini-series The Devil Next Door (2019),[9] the National Geographic documentary Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2023),[10] and the BBC's The Devil's Confession: the Lost Eichmann Tapes (2023).
[17] The Vices, about a troubled philosopher,[18] was listed as a best book of 2011 by New York Magazine[19] and the New Statesman.