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Article | February 22, 2024
“Please I Will Give Anything for You to Come Back”
“Why Rebecca Vance’s Off-Grid Move Resulted in Tragedy.” Outside Magazine, February, 2024.
Book Review | January 27, 2022
One New York girl and the precarious lives of the poor
Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliott, Washington Post, December 3, 2021
Article | July 18, 2019
The Last Frontier: Homesteaders on the Margins of America
“The Last Frontier: Homesteaders on the Margins of America,” Harper’s Magazine, August 2019.
Article | January 19, 2018
The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis
“The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis” Smithsonian Magazine, January, 2018.
Article | November 3, 2016
The History of Southern Africa, by Train
“The History of Southern Africa, by Train,” T Magazine, November 3, 2016.
Article | October 28, 2016
“My Guantánamo, and Theirs” (behind the scenes on press tours of Guantánamo), Off Assignment, August 2016.
Article | September 16, 2015
Cattle Calls: The Vanishing Breed of the Country Vet
“Cattle Calls: The Vanishing Breed of the Country Vet,” Harper’s Magazine, October 2015.
Book Review | June 27, 2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson, New York Times Book Review, October 17, 2014
Article | June 16, 2015
The Allure of the Prison Break
“The Allure of the Prison Break” (about the escape from New York’s Clinton prison), New York Times op-ed page, June 16, 2015.
Article | July 27, 2014
“This Is How We Roll” (teaching my son the family business), Outside, July 2014.
Article | October 19, 2013
“The Way of All Flesh” (about two months as a USDA meat inspector), Harper’s Magazine, May 2013.
Article | November 18, 2012
“A Snitch’s Dilemma” (about Atlanta police snitch Alex White), The New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2012.
Article | March 1, 2009
“Slipping From Shangri-La” (about an isolated valley in Ladakh), Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring, 2009.
Article | March 1, 2006
“The Checkpoint” (about the West Bank ), The Atlantic, March, 2006.
Article | January 1, 2006
“Backstage Man” (about Stanley Booth’s The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones), Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2006.
Book Review | April 9, 2004
Blue Blood, By Edward Conlon, The New York Times Book Review, April 9, 2004
Book Review | October 15, 2000
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: A Memoir, By Nasdijj, The New York Times Book Review, October 15, 2000
Article | April 3, 2000
“Guarding Sing Sing,” The New Yorker, April 3, 2000.