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I interviewed Helen Garner for the The Paris Review's art of fiction: theparisreview.org/interviews/792…

Went to Vegas and went long-ish on the Sphere for The Paris Review! I think of this piece as being about the difference between how things might be and how they really are. Thank you to my editor and friend Sophie Haigney 🤍 theparisreview.org/blog/2023/12/2…

I’m proud of this collection. Not only because I think it turned out pretty well and covers a topic that hasn’t been written about enough (what the Adderall boom did to millennials), but because almost everyone involved had wild ADD and we finished anyway pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club…

A shallow caricature of war pornographers and adrenaline junkies. No relationship to editors or sources. Writer doesn't take notes. The substance abuse is somewhat accurate.

“I think everything you do outside of writing is more important than writing, in a way.” —Eileen Myles, interviewed by James Yeh thebeliever.net/an-interview-w…

Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize an Opposition Movement? The release of activists like Ilya Yashin gives new hope to an movement in which various groups are often at war with each other. But many have doubts. nytimes.com/2024/08/06/wor…

China has built dozens of new villages along its disputed borders and paid people to move into them, a New York Times analysis found. These outposts are one way that Beijing is projecting its power abroad. nyti.ms/3WXJ68Z

this is a wild story on Shen Yun from the great Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld bit.ly/4dtHqKm

UN says a record number of aid workers were killed in 2023 and this year's figures are also high apnews.com/article/united…

Tooting my own horn here but The Economist has a great review of TWENTY YEARS that calls my reporting "admirably objective" and says the book is "compelling" and offers deep insight. So happy to read this. economist.com/culture/2024/0… #afghanistan

Have been working on this story about Ezra Edelman's brilliant Prince documentary for a long time. It's story about a suffering genius, Edelman's huge effort to piece together who he really was, and the forces that are stopping the world from seeing it. nytimes.com/2024/09/08/mag…

For two years, Nyrola Elimä and I have been investigating a mass exodus of Uyghur asylum seekers from China. Our reporting, published earlier this week in the New York Times Magazine, shows in unprecedented detail the extent of China’s pursuit of Uyghurs beyond its borders.

"Helmand is not so much a province with an opium problem as it is an opium problem with a province." web.archive.org/web/2018121210…

Nice to see Jonathan Blitzer's history of the US migration crisis as one of New York Times Books' top ten of 2024. I reviewed back in Feb: nytimes.com/2024/02/05/boo…

“As they saved others, they saved themselves.” From Matthieu Aikins’ incredible profile of the White Helmets in 2014, among the best reportage on Syria’s civil war: medium.com/matter/whoever…

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Each year, Asia Society honors a #journalist or team of #journalists with the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on #Asia. Our most recent winners, whose extraordinary reporting on Asia has been recognized with the prize, include a team of reporters from The Outlaw