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Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas?
Curse of the Byline Doppelgängers
A Death on the Frontier: A tale of addiction, a treasure hunt, and generations of American Dreams
A Young Man in a Hurry and The Organization Man: A two-part profile of Joe Kahn
‘Chapo Trap House’ Isn’t Going to Save the Democrats
The Mysterious Desert Towers of Uzbekistan’s Lost Civilization
Black Widow and the Riddle of Post-Soviet Style
Oaklings: An exhaustive compendium of media nepotism – part one, part two, part three, part four
Everything
GQ
Why Internet Stars Chinamaxxing
Why Are These Colorado Hats Huge in China?
Black Widow and the Riddle of Post-Soviet Style
Plague Doctor Meets Bird of Paradise
Joe Pera Talks With You About Fashion
The Nation
Why is Washington, DC, Blanketed in Ads for the Defense Industry?
What is Lorin Stein Doing at Tablet?
The Atlantic
The Holiday Traditions of a Nation Long Dead
The Enduring Joy of American Hitchhiking
Mother Jones
Pod of War: How MAGA’s Favorite Military Influencer Weaponizes Vulnerability
Columbia Journalism Review
The Glossy Mirage: Russia’s Wartime Glossies
Vanity Fair
‘Chapo Trap House’ Isn’t Going to Save the Democrats
Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas?
The Fine Print
The Art of Quotation in the Age of Automated Transcription
How Did The New York Review of Books Get $7.5 Million to Buy Milton Glaser’s Townhouse?
Curse of the Byline Doppelgängers
An Outsider from Insider Moves In at Fortune
James Pogue on Making It as a Roving Dirtbag Reporter
A Compendium of Media Nepotism
‘Make a Beautiful Magazine — Here’s Some Money’
(You can find the rest of my stories for The Fine Print here.)
Input
Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
The Daily Beast
The Mysterious Desert Towers of Uzbekistan’s Lost Civilization
The Smart Set
Stupid and Primordial, That’s Me: Hitchhiking in Search of Michael Heizer's Double Negative
Why Does a Tree Fall in Detroit?: Surviving a winter with utopian squatters
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Imperialist Anxieties of Christopher Nolan
An Actor Lost in the Background
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Dostoyevsky
The Odor of Mortality: On John Sutherland’s “Orwell’s Nose”
Outside
The Secret Life of America’s Last True Hermit
The Meaning of Life, According to a World Traveler (On Colin Thubron)
What Does Home Mean to a Nomadic Travel Writer? (Profiling Rory Stewart)
Bookforum
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag review
Bright Wall/Dark Room
Intonarumori, Intonarumori, Intonarumori: The Futurist Roots of Sound of Noise
Nieman Storyboard
A hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of stories: Michael Paterniti on hitchhiking and reporting
The Awl