Bayreuth Diary (The Paris Review, 2026)
The World of Aramco (The Paris Review, 2026)
In Search of Naipaul’s Trinidad (Equator, 2026)
“Artists Who Write”: Glenn Ligon & Julius Eastman (52 Walker, 2025)
Interview with Margo Jefferson (November, 2024)
On my favorite website (Reddit) (Deadlines & Divine Distractions, Vol. 11 no. 4, 2024)
The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis (The New Yorker, 2024)
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter (The New Yorker, 2024)
Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease (Harper’s, 2023)
. . . also excerpted in The Guardian Long Read (2023)
. . . winner, 2024 Overseas Press Club Madeline Dane Ross Award; shortlist, 2024 True Story Award
Don Carlo and the Abuse of Power (The Paris Review, 2023)
To Kill A Democracy (Foreign Affairs, 2023)
Francis Fukuyama Plays Defense (The New Yorker, 2022)
Foreword to The Old Maid by Edith Wharton (Cita Press, 2022; excerpted at LitHub)
Review: The Age of the Strongman (The New Republic, 2022)
The Birth of the American Foreign Correspondent (The New Yorker, 2022)
The Haunted World of Edith Wharton (The Nation, 2022)
The Anti-Nazi Punjabi Princess (The New York Review of Books, 2021)
“At Work” (The Wall Street Journal, weekly column, 2020-2021)
“Bullets in the Mail” — review of The Son King by Madawi al-Rasheed (The London Review of Books, 2021)
“Nothing to Apologize For” — review of The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power (The Drift, 2020)
The Fight to Preserve a 44,000-Year-Old Painting (The Economist’s 1843 magazine, 2020)
... 1st Place, Society for Features Journalism, Arts & Entertainment Feature
Minneapolis After George Floyd (3-part Series)
* Part 1 — Pulling Down the “Wall of No” (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
* Part 2 — After George Floyd, Who Will Police Minneapolis? (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
* Part 3 — Patrolling the Native American History of Minneapolis (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
... Finalist, Deadline Club Awards 2021
Minnesota Paramedic Speaks Out Against Police Use of Ketamine Injections (The Intercept, 2020)
In Place of Police: The Oregon Experiment (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
“Mentions” (The Drift, Various, 2020-Present)
Overheard: Fourth Round at Wimbledon (The Paris Review, 2023)
The Entangled Life: On Nancy Lemann (The Paris Review, 2022)
Translation: “Reading Cannery Row in Small-Town Indonesia” by novelist Eka Kurniawan (The Guardian)
Interview with Oscar Murillo (The White Review)
Hindutva and the Academy: A Conversation with Divya Dwivedi (LARB)
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Western? (LARB)
Everything Mall is New Again (LARB)
Trump’s Business Partner in Indonesia Exhumed Graves in West Java (The Washington Post)
How Saudi Arabia’s Religious Project Changed Indonesia (The Guardian Long Read)
Letter From Myanmar: What Comes After Militant Buddhism? (The New Statesman)
The Partying Pilgrims of Mount Tomorr (The Caravan)
“The Clock is Ticking”: Inside the Race to Save Two Million People From Statelessness in Assam (The Guardian)
Indonesia’s Fragile Festival of Democracy (New York Review of Books)
The Coming Fight for the Soul of the Dalai Lama (Foreign Policy)
Why Bannon is Meddling with Bosnia (New York Review of Books)
Sulawesi, East of Java (LRB)
Malaysia and the Improbable Win of an Unlikely Alliance (New York Review of Books)
Saudi Arabia Is Redefining Islam for the World's Largest Muslim Nation (The Atlantic)
“This is My Mum”: After 40 Years, a Stolen Child Finally Returns Home to East Timor (The Guardian)
Revealed: The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory (The Guardian)
The Muslim Overpopulation Myth That Won’t Die (The Atlantic)
Empowering Women to Break the Jihadi Cycle (The New York Times)
The Spice Island They Swapped for Manhattan (The Financial Times)
Goodnight, Zoom (The New Yorker — with Eric Macomber)
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Easiest Recipes Ever (The New Yorker)
(picked up by Eater London, NYT Cooking, Yotam Ottolenghi, and more)
The Great Brexit Bake-Off (The New Yorker)
Self-Care Tips from Yoko Ono (The New Yorker)
A Busy Summer at Fontainebleau after Renovations (The New York Times)