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Books of 2020: My favorites
End-of-year-lists: So arbitrary and yet so satisfying! This year was a hard one for real reading. I would often sit down with a book and end up scrolling through the news on my phone in a daze for 45...
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In India, the complicated truth behind the killing of two teenagers
I wrote about The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro for this weekend’s Washington Post. Here’s a snippet of my review: As Faleiro probes the case, an extensive supporting cast emerges:...
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The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui review – a secret wartime...
My review of The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui appeared in this past weekend’s Guardian.
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Excitement, glamour and occasional gunfire: The life of a Pan Am stewardess
My review of Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan-Am by Julia Cooke recently ran in the Washington Post. A bit about the book: In the earliest days of commercial air travel, cabin...
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A plan to make feminism better: Make it less White
I reviewed Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria for the Washington Post– and just so happened to be in D.C. the day it was published. Read the whole piece here.
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An economist at home in many cultures
My latest piece for the Washington Post was this review of Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen, a lovely account of the economist’s early years: After he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Nobel...
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Running memoirs: Reviews of new books from Lauren Fleshman, Kara Goucher, and...
Earlier this year I got to review two new memoirs by Lauren Fleshman and Kara Goucher for the Washington Post. I’ve admired and followed the careers of both for a long time, so it was eye-opening and...
View ArticleRecent book reviews: fiction by Walter Kempowski, Camilla Grudova, Andrey...
I’ve fallen behind on updating this site! Some recent (well, from the last six-ish months) book reviews and podcast projects below. For the Financial Times: I reviewed An Ordinary Youth by Walter...
View ArticleSecond half of 2024: Reviews, interviews, podcasts
As the year comes to a close, here’s a quick round-up of a few projects I’ve worked on over the last six months. For the the Financial Times, I reviewed Rejection by Tony Tulathiamutte. For the...
View ArticleRecent reviews and interviews: Nonfiction by Jérôme Sueur, Pico Iyer, Emma...
In the first half of 2025, I wrapped up a year-long podcast contract with Bloomberg Green— a few final production highlights included: hearing from sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson about how he...
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