Selected Articles and Features
New York Times Magazine
What People Misunderstand About Rape
Sexual assault often goes unpunished when victims fail to fight back. But investigators, psychologists and biologists all describe freezing as an involuntary response to trauma.
Epic Magazine, Little America: Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in America (FSG), contributor, 2020
New York Times Book Review, Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A book of strangers,” Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories, 01/20
Harper’s, Letter from Lusk, The Skinning Tree: America’s Redface Problem Onstage, 1/20
New York Times Magazine (cover story), The Haunted: How does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity? 11/19
Columbia School of Journalism Dart Award Winner for Excellence in Trauma Reporting
Smithsonian (feature) The Priest of Abu Ghraib: Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator came face to face with a shocking truth about the war—and himself, 01/19
New York Times Magazine (feature) Trapped by the Walmart of Heroin: A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave, 10/18
New York Times Magazine (feature), They Will Destroy Us, 01/17
New York Times Magazine (feature), The Lost Ones: I Have No Choice But to Keep Looking, 11/16, (National Magazine Award for Feature Writing)
Harper’s (feature), Escape from the Caliphate: Rescuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq, 11/16
New York Times Magazine (feature), Road Warriors: Meet the Vigilantes Fighting ISIS, 10/15 (Livingston Award Finalist for International Reporting)
New York Times Sunday Book Review, David Morris’s The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 01/15
New York Times Sunday Book Review, Brian Turner’s My Life As a Foreign Country: A Memoir, 01/15
The New Republic (cover story), Waiting For ISIS: At War in the Garden of Eden, 11/15
The New Republic (feature) A Night With Commander Pigeon: Visiting Afghanistan’s Only Female Warlord, 10/15
Esquire (feature) Judy Clarke Has Saved Every American Villain. Until Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 5/15
Harper's (folio), Love Crimes: What Liberation Looks Like for Afghan Women, 2/15
Harper's (Readings), excerpt from Demon Camp, 11/13