About

I worked as a freelance research editor for The New York Times for nearly eleven years, at T: The New York Times Style Magazine from January 2014 through February 2020, and at The New York Times Magazine from December 2015 through November 2024.

Here are some New York Times Magazine cover stories, features, and in-depth interviews for which I was the research editor or a co-research editor:

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny by Caity Weaver (September 1, 2024)

Why Are Silicon Valley Therapists Becoming Tech Coaches? by Daniel Duane (August 6, 2024)

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (July 7, 2024)

The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die by Zach St. George (March 5, 2024)

How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America by Irina Aleksander (February 20, 2024)

What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do? by Jon Gertner (November 8, 2023)

Is Maneskin the Last Rock Band? by Dan Brooks (September 12, 2023)

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault is That? by Paul Tough (September 5, 2023)

Sean Paul is Still Busy by Iva Dixit (August 16, 2023)

How Hip-Hop Conquered the World by Wesley Morris (August 10, 2023)

Iggy Pop Isn’t About to Whitewash His Past by David Marchese (January 1, 2023)

The Democrats’ Last Stand in Wisconsin by Jonathan Mahler (November 1, 2022)

The Elusive Power of Cate Blanchett by Jordan Kisner (October 11, 2022)

Jonathan Majors Is More Than A Marvel Supervillain by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (August 30, 2022)

The Quest by Circadian Medicine to Make the Most of Our Body Clocks by Kim Tingley (July 6, 2022)

New York’s Weed Rush Is Here. They Came to Cash In. by Jaime Lowe (June 1, 2022)

Viola Davis, Inside Out by Jazmine Hughes (April 12, 2022)

The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70 by Maggie Jones (January 12, 2022)

What If There’s No Such Thing as Closure? by Meg Bernhard (December 15, 2021)

Inside Jane Campion’s Cinema of Tenderness and Brutality by Jordan Kisner (November 16, 2021)

The Secret Toll of Racial Ambiguity by Alexandra Kleeman (October 20, 2021)

A Brief Introduction to Philosophy (Through A Certain Sex Act) by Jamie Lauren Keiles (October 12, 2021)

The Mascot Whisperer by Max Rubin (August 6, 2021)

LeVar Burton’s Quest to Succeed Alex Trebek by David Marchese (June 28, 2021)

The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racist Legacy by J Wortham (May 5, 2021)

The Woman Who Made van Gogh by Russell Shorto (April 14, 2021)

The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers by Vanessa Grigoriadis (March 23, 2021)

How Moses Sumney Found Himself in Maximalism by Lizzy Goodman (March 10, 2021)

Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us by Giles Harvey (February 23, 2021)

The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga by Molly Young (November 25, 2020)

How A New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation  by J Wortham (August 25, 2020)

The Voice of God. (And Knausgaard, Whitman, Machiavelli …) by Susan Dominus (May 13, 2020)

The Slur I Never Expected to Hear In 2020 by Cathy Park Hong (April 12, 2020)

How West Side Story Was Reborn by Sasha Weiss (February 15, 2020)

Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (November 27, 2019) 

How the Man Behind the ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again by Giles Harvey (November 6, 2019)

Pam Grier On Maintaining Her Independence and Identity in Hollywood by David Marchese (September 15, 2019)

The Great Race to Rule Streaming TV by Jonah Weiner (July 10, 2019)

Why Stacey Abrams Is Still Saying She Won by David Marchese (April 28, 2019)

Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America by Carvell Wallace (February 12, 2018)

 Rachel Brosnahan’s Comic Timing by Rachel Syme (November 28, 2017)

Here are some shorter New York Times Magazine articles, essays, interview and in two cases, works of fiction, for which I was the research editor:

The Inflation Reduction Act & the 2024 Election by David Wallace-Wells (January 24, 2024)

Obama’s Netflix Series Asks If We’ve Ignored the Workplace for Too Long by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein (June 13, 2023)

What Guns Did to My Childhood by Mitchell S. Jackson (December 12, 2022)

When He Stood Up Quickly, He Sometimes Fainted. What Was It? by Lisa Sanders. M.D. (November 23, 2022)

Months After a Stroke, the Man Was Wasting Away. What Was Wrong? by Lisa Sanders, M.D. (May 26, 2022)

M.R.I.s Are Finding Connections Between Our Brain Activity and Psychology by Kim Tingley (April 19, 2022)

A New Stealthy Kind of Protest Music by Carina del Valle Schorske (March 11, 2022)

Hiro Made Fashion Photography Otherworldly by Stella Bugbee (December 22, 2021)

Lauren Berlant Helped Us Understand the Intimacy of Pop Culture by Jane Hu (December 22, 2021)

He Passed Out Three Times In Ten Days. What Was Wrong? by Lisa Sanders, M.D. (August 26, 2021)

The Two-Minute Geniuses of Tik-Tok by A.O. Scott (December 12, 2020)

His Fingernails Were Purple but Didn’t Hurt. What Was This? by Lisa Sanders, M.D. (October 15, 2020)

Covid-19 May Have a Hidden Impact on the Heart by Kim Tingley (September 23, 2020)

My Child Has a Disability. What Will Her Education Be Like This Year? By Nicole Chung (September 10, 2020)

One Thing by Edwidge Danticat (July 7, 2020)

Screen Time by Alejandro Zambra (Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell) (July 7, 2020)

An American Jobs Crisis with Few Reporters to Cover It by Abe Streep (May 27, 2020)

Need to Keep Gen Z Workers Happy? Hire a ‘Generational Consultant’ by Jazmine Hughes (February 19, 2020)

Why Did the Woman’s Finger Turn Numb and Blue? by Lisa Sanders, M.D.

Etika, A Charismatic YouTuber Who Struggled Through His Online Fame by Jamie Lauren Keiles (December 23, 2019)

Isabel Toledo, A Designer Who Expressed Emotion Through Clothing by Jordan Kisner (December 23, 2019)

Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery by Bryan Stevenson (August 14, 2019)

Gertrude Jeannette Became an Actress Not Despite Her Stammer, But Because of It by Elizabeth McCracken (December 27, 2018)

Phyllis Kind Was Awed by the Passion of Her Artists. She Sold Their Work With an Equally Stubborn Intensity by Sam Dolnick (December 27, 2018)

Rashida Tlaib Plans to Be Part of a New Era in the House by Audie Cornish (September 5, 2018)

E-waste Offers an Economic Opportunity as Well as Toxicity by Brook Larmer (July 15, 2018)

China Won’t Play in This World Cup. It Still Hopes to Profit by Brook Larmer (May 30, 2018)

Delia Graff Fara Explored a Philosophical Concept With a Heap of Sand by James Ryerson (December 28, 2017)

When ‘Conservatives’ Turn Into Radicals by Jane Coaston (October 31, 2017)

Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools? by Nikole Hannah-Jones (February 21, 2017)

What Josephine Del Deo Saved for Us by Gareth Cook (December 21, 2016)

Dana Raphael Opened Up the Mysteries of Nursing by Maggie Jones (December 21, 2016)

Think Like a Doctor: The Painter’s Headaches by Lisa Sanders, M.D. (November 3, 2016)

For Gay and Transgender Teens, Will it Get Better? by J Wortham (September 8, 2016)

How An Archive of the Internet Could Change History by J Wortham (June 21, 2016)

If Not Lyme Disease, What Caused This Man’s Fever? by Lisa Sanders, M.D. (June 16, 2016)

Winging It: Manhattan’s Airspace May Look Empty, but It Teems With Life by Helen Macdonald (July 2, 2016).

And here are some stories from T: The New York Times Style Magazine for which I was the research editor (or, in one case, a co-research editor):

Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palate by Ligaya Mishan (May 11, 2020)

The Japanese Artist Turning Fruits and Vegetables into Sculpture by Motoko Rich (April 28, 2020)

The Honest Beauty of Wild Grasses by Ligaya Mishan (September 25, 2019)

From Claude Monet to Banksy, Why Do Artists Destroy Their Own Work? by M.H. Miller (March 11, 2019)

A New Apartment That Conjures the Spirit of 1960s Milan by Kurt Soller (February 26, 2019)

The Secret Ingredient for These Desserts: A 3-D Printer by Ligaya Mishan (February 21, 2019)

How Bauhaus Redefined What Design Could Do for Society by Nikil Saval (February 4, 2019)

From the Director of ‘Call Me By Your Name,’ a New Project: A House by Guy Trebay (September 19, 2018)

The Designers Envisioning A Bold New Kind of Japanese Architecture by Kurt Soller (September 18, 2018)

On Shelter Island, A Pool House As Discreet as Its Environs by Kurt Soller (September 11, 2018)

The Comforting Appeal of Herbs by Ligaya Mishan (November 11, 2018)

What Does It Mean to Be an Artist and a Mother? by Alice Gregory (August 29, 2018)

Six Times Journalists on the Paper’s History of Covering AIDS And Gay Issues by Wesley Morris, Adam Nagourney, Denny Lee, and more (April 27, 2018)

The Power of Wearing Flowers by Ligaya Mishan (February 16, 2018)

A Film That Pays Homage to the Bygone Era of London Couture by Alexander Fury (November 28, 2017)

The Versatile and Resilient Amy Adams by Manohla Dargis (October 16, 2017)

A Paris Boudoir Where Everything’s Meant to Be Touched by Amanda Fortini (October 12, 2017)

What It’s Like to Live With Art That Doesn’t Love You Back by M.H. Miller (September 22, 2017)

The Allure of Black-Colored Foods by Ligaya Mishan (September 21, 2017)

The Latest Design Trend: Black and Burned Wood by Amanda Fortini (September 19, 2017)

Jun Takahashi, the Sorcerer of Fashion by Gaby Wood (August 17, 2017)

Dave Chappelle Is an American Folk Hero by Kevin Powell (April 19, 2017)

Protest Art in the Era of Trump by M.H. Miller (February 20, 2017)

Going Home With Chloe Sevigny by Amanda Fortini (February 10, 2017)

What Does ‘Couture’ Actually Mean? by Alexander Fury (January 27, 2017)

The Pieces of Zadie Smith by Jeffrey Eugenides (October 17, 2016)

Jonathan Anderson’s Things by Alice Gregory (September 21, 2016)

Brutalism Is Back by Nikil Saval (October 6, 2016)

When Fashion Becomes a Form of Protest by Alexander Fury (August 17, 2016)

In the ‘70s She Motorcycled Around the World. Today, She’s Fashion’s Unlikely New Muse by Alexander Fury (August 15, 2016)

The Next Generation of Artists’ Studios by Emily Stokes (April 12, 2016)

The Centuries-Old Italian House Where Cy Twombly Thrived by Stacey Stowe (March 26, 2015)

In Design, Now Is the Time for All Materials to Be Treated Equally by Nicky Haslam (March 9, 2016)

An English Decorator’s Poetic Home in the Welsh Countryside by Andrew O’Hagan (February 12, 2016)

The New Power Dressing by Cathy Horyn (February 11, 2016)

The World’s Most Dedicated All-Natural Perfumer by Alice Gregory (February 3, 2016)

The Artists Theaster Gates, Mark Bradford, and Rick Lowe Think Outside the Box by Nikil Saval (December 3, 2015)

Making a Museum Out of a Mountain by Alice Gregory (November 12, 2015)

A Very Revealing Conversation with Rihanna by Miranda July (October 12, 2015)

The Boundless Artistry of Steve McQueen by Wyatt Mason (October 12, 2015)

Francis Kurkdjian and Fabien Ducher, Changing History in a Bottle by Nancy Hass (September 24, 2015)

Angelo Donghia, the Purist by Nancy Hass (September 23, 2015)

Assemble: The Art Collective That’s Making Things Happen by Nikil Saval (August 9, 2015)

The Alternatives: Designers Subverting Fashion’s Status Quo by Alexander Fury (August 9, 2015)

Going Places: François Roche and Pierre Huyghe’s Train to Nowhere by Irina Aleksander (May 13, 2015)

The Agony and the Ecstacy of Kanye West by Jon Caramanica (April 10, 2015)

The Mother-Daughter Thing: Susan Howe and R. H. Quaytman by Christine Smallwood (March 24, 2015)

Famine or Feast? by Cathy Horyn (November 16, 2014)

Sisters of the Moon: Stevie Nicks and Haim by Sheila Heti (October 6, 2014)

Who is Elena Ferrante? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Meghan O’Rourke and Emily Gould (August 22, 2014)

The Beautiful Mind of Couturier-Turned-Garden-Designer Federico Forquet by Marella Caracciolo Chia (August 17, 2014)

Emily Sundblad: The Not It Girl by Alice Gregory (August 15, 2014)

Elena Arzak and the New New Basque Cuisine by Tejal Rao (April 29, 2014)

Small Museums by Orhan Pamuk (March 20, 2014).

And here’s a small sampling of interviews I fact-checked for Interview’s print magazine:

Valie Export by Devon Fore (August 24, 2012)

Paula Cooper by Matthew Higgs (August 2, 2012)

Rita Ackermann by Angus Cook (October 27, 2011)

Ellsworth Kelly by Gwyneth Paltrow (September 24, 2011)

Sam Shepard by Michael Almereyda (September 24, 2011)

Wolfgang Tillmans by Bob Nickas (September 7, 2011)

Guido by Sarah Burton (August 21, 2011)

Michael Kors by Lauren Hutton (August 20, 2011)

Anne Hathaway by Chelsea Handler (August 16, 2011)

James Turrell by Michael Govan (May 23, 2011)

Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccoli by Giancarlo Giammetti (May 10, 2011)

Marisa Berenson by Tom Ford (August 20, 2011)

Valerie Plame Wilson by Naomi Wolf (October 12, 2010)

Polly Mellen by Nicolas Ghesquiere (August 17, 2010)