Essays & reporting
Big Time Sensuality New York Review of Books, 2024
Love’s Work (On Hayao Miyazaki) New York Review of Books, 2023
—A Ghibli Girlhood, interview with Daniel Drake
The Oldest Forest New York Review of Books, 2020
Maine’s Sublime Canvas of Contradictions New York Review of Books, 2020
Pandemic Journal New York Review of Books, 2020
A View to a Krill Harper’s Magazine, 2020
Walton Ford: Twenty-First-Century Naturalist New York Review of Books, 2018
Wild Speculation: Evolution After Humans New York Review of Books, 2018
Marching for Our Lives New York Review of Books, 2018
A Plate of Jellyfish New York Review of Books, 2018
Pandora’s Bed Columbia Quarto, 2017
Who Swims With the Blobfish? Morningside Review, 2015
Interviews for the New York Review
David Quammen on science writing
Scott Stern on environmental rights
Ishion Hutchinson on left-handed prose
Paisley Currah on transgender politics
Jessica Riskin and Marcus Feldman on scientific racism
Sophie Pinkham on the war in Ukraine
Melissa Febos on writing memoir
Marina Warner on fairy tales and Yuletide
Nicole Rudick on 1970s feminist art
Edward Mendelson close-reads Auden
Gavin Francis on lockdowns and isolation
Mike Jay on psychedelic history