Selected Writing

• The Slop Economy

  The New York Times Magazine

• A Mind of Its Own

  The New York Times Magazine

• Out Birding

  The London Review of Books

• RecoveryTown U.S.A.

  The New York Times Magazine

• Hitting the Mark

  The New York Times Magazine

• What Happens to Public Media Now?

  The New Yorker

• Two Appalachias

  The London Review of Books

• Tea Tax

  The New Yorker

• The Next Mass Extinction

  The New York Review of Books

• On Noah's Ark in Kentucky

  The New Yorker

• Enter the Rooster

  The New York Times Magazine

• The War Against WVU's Math Department

  The New Yorker

• The Rat Killer's Dilemma

  The New York Times

• Teen Truckers

  The New Yorker

• A Rural Doctor's Broken Heart

  The New York Times

• Before the Child Tax Credit

  The New Yorker

• Hating Your Job is Cool. But is it a Labor Movement?

  The New York Times Magazine

• Ignition Point

  The New Yorker

• A Year of Avoiding Eviction in Tennessee

  The New Yorker

• Can We Make Conscious Robots?

  The New York Times

• The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead

  The New York Times

• The Hunt for Big Hail

  The New York Times

• On the Hunt With the Mink Man

  The New York Times

• Return of the Nail Salons

  The New Yorker

• A Survival Center Tries to Survive the Pandemic

  The New Yorker

• The Animal Days

  National Geographic Magazine

• Waiting for Promised Help in Eastern Kentucky

  The New Yorker

• Finding Your Next Meal in West Virginia

  National Geographic Magazine

• Where Kites Fly, Other Kites Fall

  The New York Times