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Emily Eakin
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
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