I'm [Oliver], a [writer]. Here is some of my writing.

Two Appalachias

(The London Review of Books)

Medicine People Need But Can't Get

(The New York Times)

The Next Mass Extinction?

(The New York Review of Books)

Enter the Rooster

(The New York Times Magazine)

The Rat Killer's Dilemma

(The New York Times)

The War Against WVU's Math Department

(The New Yorker)

Before the Child Tax Credit

(The New Yorker)

Can Computers Read Our Minds?

(The New York Times)

A Rural Doctor's Broken Heart

(The New York Times)

Inside Antiwork

(The New York Times Magazine)

On the Hunt With the Mink Man

(The New York Times)

The Fight Docs

(The New York Times)

The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead

(The New York Times)

Can We Make Conscious Robots?

(The New York Times)

Avoiding Eviction in Tennessee

(The New Yorker)

Return of the Nail Salons

(The New Yorker)

The Silent Season for Casino Workers

(The New Yorker)

Waiting for Promised Help in Kentucky

(The New Yorker)

Where Kites Fly, Other Kites Fall

(The New York Times)

A Survival Center Tries to Survive

(The New Yorker)

Reintroducing Elk to Abandoned Mines

(The New York Times)

The Hunt for Big Hail

(The New York Times)

On the Mauna Loa Eruption

(The New York Times)

On Sad Songs

(The New York Times)

Can an AI be Conscious?

(The New York Times)

Saving the Last Snails on Earth

(The New York Times)

Baby Talk is a Lingua Franca

(The New York Times)