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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

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

When Tina Met Harvey

The Art of Quotation in the Age of Automated Transcription

Taro and Mishi Take Manhattan

Growing Up Gus Wenner

The Saga of Erin Overbey

How Did The New York Review of Books Get $7.5 Million to Buy Milton Glaser’s Townhouse?

He Said

Curse of the Byline Doppelgängers

A Tempest at T

All the History Fit to Frame

An Outsider from Insider Moves In at Fortune

A Young Man in a Hurry

The Organization Man

Avast! Boats and Zines

Ellies on Parade

Catching the Light

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

GQ

Black Widow and the Riddle of Post-Soviet Style

Plague Doctor Meets Bird of Paradise

Joe Pera Talks With You About Fashion

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

A Death on the Frontier

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

Fishing with John Lurie