Selected Reporting
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
The Guardian, 2026
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Pieces of Gaza
The New York Review of Books, 2026
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Tongue-tied: Can you lose your native language?
The New York Times, 2024
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Rats! in Paris
The New York Review of Books, 2023
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Can Anyone Stop Paris from Drowning?
The Dial, 2023
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The Quest to Restore Notre Dame’s Glorious Sound
The New York Times, 2023
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Teaching in the Banlieue
The London Review of Books, 2022
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You got up and you died: After the Bataclan
The London Review of Books, 2022
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Macron on the Precipice
The New York Review of Books, 2022
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Bike Lane to the Elysée
The New York Review of Books, 2022
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By Your Name: On France’s Outdated Laws
The Paris Review, 2021
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Criminalizing a Constitutional Right
The New York Review of Books, 2020
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Inside the Deportation Courts
The New York Review of Books, 2019
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The End of Atlanticism
The Guardian, 2019
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Jane Does: An Oral History of the Jane Collective
Harper's, 2017
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El Salvador: A Town Without Violence?
The New York Review of Books, 2017
Selected Criticisims & Essays
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A Necessary Detachment: On Xiaolu Guo
The New York Review of Books, 2021
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Sybille Bedford and the Unruly Art of the Origin Story
The New Yorker, 2021
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Living Memory: On Annie Ernaux
The New Yorker, 2020
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The Devourer: On Marie NDiaye
The New York Review of Books, 2020
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How Should a Millennial Be? On Sally Rooney
The New York Review of Books, 2019
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About to Pop: On Kathleen Collins
The London Review of Books, 2019
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The View from the Attic: On Jean Rhys
The New York Review of Books, 2018