I’m a journalist based in Paris.

I’m also the founder and editor-in-chief of The Dial, a new, award-winning magazine of international writing. We find the best, edit and mentor the best writers you’ve never heard of, everywhere from Argentina to Ukraine. The Dial grew out of a two-year popup called The Ballot, which I funded with a prize I won for my own reporting.

My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books, where I worked as an editor for several years. My reporting has been featured on NPR and France 24, and I’m a regular commentator on the BBC.

In general, my work tries to unravel complex issues and debate. In 2019, my article “The End of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?” won the European Press Prize. My article “Criminalizing a Constitutional Right” about the attacks on women’s health in the United States won a 2022 Front Page Award. My reporting on France’s antiterrorism laws was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. My interactive feature on Notre Dame sounds—created with the New York Times graphics team—won the SPJ prize for Immersive Journalism and was a finalist for the 2023 Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling award. My essay on language loss won the 2025 Linguistics Journalism Award.

I teach journalism at Sciences Po and regularly speak at schools and universities. My work has been taught at Harvard Law School and cited in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court; it has been translated into Polish, French, and Portuguese. I’ve been a Robert Bosch Fellow, Atlantik-Brücke Young Leader, and Milena Jesenská Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. I am also an advisory editor at The Paris Review. Here is an interview with me about some of my reporting.

I speak English, French, German, and Spanish. Before becoming a journalist, I studied Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin) at Harvard and Oxford. My focus was ancient papyrus, something I’m still passionate about today.