Can a Coma Be Contagious?

The New York Times Book Review, September 23, 2021

New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: The Harvard Murder

The New York Times, November 4, 2020

He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel

The New York Times Book Review, February 12, 2020

Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes on Madness in Medicine.

The New York Times, November, 2, 2019

Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope

The New York Times Book Review, December 6, 2018

Bury My Heart

The New York Times Book Review, July 21, 2017

Lord of the WASPs

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2017

The Crowds That Mattered

New York Review of Books Daily, January 23, 2017

What Can Artists Accomplish By Saying No to Trump?

The New Yorker.com, January 20, 2017

Inclusion Acts

The New York Times Book Review, September 18, 2016

Bacteria on the Brain

The New Yorker, December 7, 2015

Bonnie Jo Campbell's "Mothers, Tell Your Daughters"

The New York Times Book Review, October 9, 2015

The Sunken Cathedral

The New York Times Book Review, June 8, 2015

The Excrement Experiment: Treating disease with fecal transplants

The New Yorker, December 1, 2014

Out Loud: Elevating Excrement

The New Yorker, November 24, 2014

Going Native

The New York Times Book Review, June 8, 2014

Capital Man

The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2014

The Civilization Kit: On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-sufficiency

The New Yorker, December 23, 2013

The Gallic Gadfly

The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2013

Derrida: The Excluded Favorite

The New York Review of Books Daily, March 25, 2013

How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist

The New York Times Magazine, February 13, 2013

Survival Skills

The New York Times Book Review, December 22, 2013

Cloud Atlas's Theory of Everything

The New York Review of Books Daily, November 2, 2012

Grey Area: How Fifty Shades Dominated the Market

The New York Review of Books Daily, July 27, 2012

Tacita Dean: The Will to Create

The New Yorker, May 21, 2012