 Donatich began the Margellos World Republic of Letters, a literature in translation series that published such authors as Adonis, Norman Manea and Claudio Magris.He also launched the digital archive platform, The Stalin Digital Archive and the Encounters Chinese Language multimedia platform.In 2009, he briefly gained media attention when he was involved in the decision to expunge the Muhammad cartoons from the Yale University Press book "The Cartoons that Shook the World", for fear of Muslim violence.