Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease (Harper’s, 2023)
. . . also excerpted in The Guardian Long Read (2023)
. . . winner, 2024 Overseas Press Club Awards; 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)
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)
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)
Various “Mentions” (The Drift, 2021- 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, 2020)
Interview with Oscar Murillo (The White Review, 2020)
Quarantine Journal — Dateline: Anywhere (The Point, 2020)
The New Language of Corona (1843, 2020)
Hindutva and the Academy: A Conversation with Divya Dwivedi (LARB, 2020)
Hiking a New Mega-Trail in the Balkans (The Guardian, 2018)
Visiting Arctic Norway in the Grip of Climate Melancholia (Here, 2019)
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Western? (LA Review of Books, 2019)
By the Time a Natural Disaster Strikes, It’s Too Late (The Outline, 2019)
Welcome to the Most Instagrammable Museum on Earth (The Outline, 2018)
The Modern Art Museum Hoping to Send Indonesian Art Global (CNN Style, 2018)
Everything Mall is New Again (LA Review of Books, 2018)
Art and Dissent in Singapore: an Interview with Seelan Palay (LA Review of Books, 2019)
Mother Teresa Was No Saint (HuffPost, 2016)
The problem of “universal” shades (Vogue India, 2015)
A Busy Summer at Fontainebleau after Renovations (The New York Times, 2013)
Trump’s Business Partner in Indonesia Exhumed Graves in West Java (The Washington Post, 2020)
How Saudi Arabia’s Religious Project Changed Indonesia (The Guardian Long Read, 2020)
How Saudi Preaching Inspired Terror in Nigeria (The Daily Beast, 2020)
The Coronavirus Threatens Saudi Arabia’s Global Ambitions (Foreign Affairs, 2020)
Letter From Myanmar: What Comes After Militant Buddhism? (The New Statesman, 2020)
Travel Influencers, Meet Authoritarian Regimes (Rest of World, 2020)
The Coronavirus Responders (The MIT Technology Review, 2020)
The Partying Pilgrims of Mount Tomorr (The Caravan, 2020)
Indonesia’s Government Was Slow to Lock Down, So Its People Took Charge (National Geographic, 2020)
“Not Normal Rain” (LRB, 2020)
The Once-Closeted Gay Jihadist Bringing Meditation to Jakarta (The Guardian, 2020)
“The Clock is Ticking”: Inside the Race to Save Two Million People From Statelessness in Assam (The Guardian, 2019)
Indonesia’s Fragile Festival of Democracy (New York Review of Books, 2019)
Indonesia’s Queer Panic (LRB, 2019)
Albania Gets Religion (Politico, 2019)
The Coming Fight for the Soul of the Dalai Lama (Foreign Policy, 2019)
Why Bannon is Meddling with Bosnia (The New York Review of Books, 2018)
Sulawesi, East of Java (LRB, 2018)
Bosnia Struggles with Return of ISIS Widows (Politico, 2018)
“They are our brothers”: Rohingya Refugees Find Rare Welcome in Aceh (The Guardian, 2018)
Malaysia and the Improbable Win of an Unlikely Alliance (The New York Review of Books, 2018)
For Indonesia’s Jews, Holy Days Highlight Their Precarious Lives (The Financial Times, 2018)
Preaching the Peace: A Fundamentalist Cleric’s Crusade in Deep South Thailand (The Caravan, 2018)
Low-Caste Hindus are Converting to Buddhism as a Form of Political Protest (The Atlantic, 2018)
On the Run: An Interfaith Romance Stirs Up Trouble in Ladakh (The Caravan, 2018)
Saudi Arabia Is Redefining Islam for the World's Largest Muslim Nation (The Atlantic, 2017)
“This is My Mum”: After 40 Years, a Stolen Child Finally Returns Home to East Timor (The Guardian, 2017)
Revealed: The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory (The Guardian, 2017)
The Muslim Overpopulation Myth That Won’t Die (The Atlantic, 2017)
Empowering Women to Break the Jihadi Cycle (The New York Times, 2017)
The Spice Island They Swapped for Manhattan (The Financial Times, 2017)
The Public Flogging of Two Gay Men and What it Says about Indonesia's Future (The Guardian, 2017)
Will Trump Bungle Obama’s Declassification Diplomacy? (The New Republic, 2017)
How Trump Is Using Bush-Era Laws to Deport Christians (The New Republic, 2017)
Islamists face uphill struggle in Indonesian Borneo (The Financial Times, 2017)
The Islamic World has a Blasphemy Problem (Foreign Policy, 2017)
The Improbable Rise and Blasphemous Fall of a Christian Politician in Indonesia (Foreign Policy, 2017)
Indonesia’s Religious Establishment is Crumbling (Foreign Policy, 2017)
Indonesia Aims To Attract More Muslim Visitors In “Halal” Tourism Push (NPR, 2017)
The Dating App for Would-Be Polygamists: Controversial Even in Muslim Indonesia (The Daily Beast, 2017)
Women Still Face Abuse After Indonesia’s Ban on Migrant Work in Gulf (News Deeply, 2017)
Indonesia Revives Its Communist Ghosts (US News and World Report, 2017)
Inside the Fight to Save Kenya’s Oldest National Park (HuffPost, 2016)
Goodnight, Zoom (NewYorker.com — with Eric Macomber)
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Easiest Recipes Ever (NewYorker.com)
(picked up by Eater London, the NYT Cooking newsletter, Yotam Ottolenghi, and more)
The Great Brexit Bake-Off (NewYorker.com)
Tips for Foreign Correspondents in an American Conflict Zone (McSweeney's)
This Podcast Was Brought to You By... (NewYorker.com)
I'm Not on a Diet, I'm Fasting (McSweeney's)
Scenes from Ivanka Trump's Deep Sea Thanksgiving (McSweeney's)
Self-Care Tips from Yoko Ono (NewYorker.com)
How to Survive the Next Four Years Like a French Woman (NewYorker.com)
A Field Guide to Digital Nomadic Tribes of the West (McSweeney’s)
Ulysses and the Sirens (The Hairpin)
My Angle for This Piece is Donald Trump’s America (The Awl)
We Hope You Enjoy Yet Another Thanksgiving Issue of Our Food Magazine! (McSweeney’s)
CIA Memo Re: Pokemon Go (McSweeney’s)
