The Outline is closing down, which is incredibly sad. Here is the last piece I ever got to write for them.
With the unbelievably generous support of the Pulitzer Center, I wrote about the water crisis in Mexico City for the London Review of Books
You can also read it on the Pulitzer Center website, if it is paywalled there by the LRB.
For Hazlitt, I wrote about the creeping sense of not being able to arrive at a satisfactory explanation for what in god’s name is on
https://hazlitt.net/feature/year-5
I wrote for the Guardian about the undignified thing of being way too interested in US politics!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/23/addicted-to-impeachment-hearings-not-american
This week, I wrote for the New York Times Magazine about my favourite website, which is called Radio Garden: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-radio-garden.html
Last week, I wrote about how the internet feels to me now: https://theoutline.com/post/8161/x-is-just-y-for-z
A little bit before that, I wrote about how much I hate Logan Roy’s cardigans in Succession: https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/succession-logan-roy-shawl-cardigan.html
again for lovely Popula, I wrote about academic conferences and bad news: https://popula.com/2018/08/16/bad-news/
For lovely Popula magazine, which already feels like a new home for all the weird ideas I have bouncing around in my head at all times, I wrote about two of my consistent preoccupations: climate change, and American legs:
