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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
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
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
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