The logistics of getting into Sellafield, a nuclear facility in northwestern England, are both bureaucratic and sartorial. I applied for a media visit…

January 2023

For a good few years, beginning around 2010, I was stricken with a love for reading about architecture, and about Indian urban architecture in…

December 2022

A couple of months ago, the New Yorker published a piece I’d worked on nearly all year: on the Hindu right’s gradual <noun> of Bollywood. That <noun…

September 2022

An outtake from "A Dominant Character"

June 2022

Outtakes from Indonesia

May 2022

+ Some Pulitzer news

March 2022

Sometimes Always, these days, I accept book-review assignments for selfish reasons. I want to write reviews that are really essays, of the kind…

December 2021

At a recent exhibition, Sohei Nishino’s “Diorama Map Tokyo, 2004” occupied half a wall, and it transfixed me. These maps are Nishino’s specialty. From…

November 2021

Reader, you may not be a cricket fan. But stick with me. The tale is worth it. A full 25 years separated the 1996 World Cup—the first cricket games I…

September 2021

Earlier this year, my editor at the Guardian sent me a short newspaper article that touched on a 20-year-old murder case, and on some of the forensic…

August 2021

When Janet Malcolm died in June, I remembered that I’d once started reading “The Journalist and the Murderer” and, for extraneous reasons, never gotten…

June 2021

Three stories from my reporting—not all of them strictly outtakes—and an invitation to a talk: I spent some time last week talking over the phone to…