Selected Reporting

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  • ‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?

    The Guardian, 2026

  • Pieces of Gaza

    The New York Review of Books, 2026

  • Tongue-tied: Can you lose your native language?

    The New York Times, 2024

  • Rats! in Paris

    The New York Review of Books, 2023

  • Can Anyone Stop Paris from Drowning?

    The Dial, 2023

  • The Quest to Restore Notre Dame’s Glorious Sound

    The New York Times, 2023

  • Teaching in the Banlieue

    The London Review of Books, 2022

  • You got up and you died: After the Bataclan

    The London Review of Books, 2022

  • Macron on the Precipice

    The New York Review of Books, 2022

  • Bike Lane to the Elysée

    The New York Review of Books, 2022

  • By Your Name: On France’s Outdated Laws

    The Paris Review, 2021

  • Criminalizing a Constitutional Right

    The New York Review of Books, 2020

  • Inside the Deportation Courts

    The New York Review of Books, 2019

  • The End of Atlanticism

    The Guardian, 2019

  • Jane Does: An Oral History of the Jane Collective

    Harper's, 2017

  • El Salvador: A Town Without Violence?

    The New York Review of Books, 2017

Selected Criticisims & Essays

  • A Necessary Detachment: On Xiaolu Guo

    The New York Review of Books, 2021

  • Sybille Bedford and the Unruly Art of the Origin Story

    The New Yorker, 2021

  • Living Memory: On Annie Ernaux

    The New Yorker, 2020

  • The Devourer: On Marie NDiaye

    The New York Review of Books, 2020

  • How Should a Millennial Be? On Sally Rooney

    The New York Review of Books, 2019

  • About to Pop: On Kathleen Collins

    The London Review of Books, 2019

  • The View from the Attic: On Jean Rhys

    The New York Review of Books, 2018

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