Selected articles, essays, and excerpts:

“How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science,” Nautilus magazine, March 18, 2022

“What surviving Arctic disaster can teach us about life in awful times,” The Washington Post, January 11, 2021

“Mission to the Frozen North,” The New York Review of Books (NYR Daily), January 5, 2021

“My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor,” Outside Magazine, Journeys issue, June/July 2020

“Trump’s ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’ hurt the people they’re supposed to help,” The Washington Post, July 18, 2019

“I (Kinda) Hate Running,” Outside Online, July 9, 2019

“‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System,” The New York Review of Books (NYR Daily), June 21, 2019

“How the Trump Administration’s Border Camps Fit into the History of Concentration Camps,” GQ, June 18, 2019

“The Small-Town West Virginia Bookstore That Helped Me Survive My Terrible Childhood,” Zócalo Public Square, April 30, 2019

“If Trump declares a state of emergency, he might actually cause one,” The Washington Post, January 8, 2019

“How Concentration Camp Prisoners Found Comfort in Imaginary Feasts,” Zócalo Public Square, December 4, 2018

“Gitmo Started as a Detention Camp for Immigrants,” The Daily Beast, June 23, 2018

“Donald Trump Is Still Setting Up Concentration Camps on American Soil,” Haaretz, June 21, 2018

“Trump’s Tent City for Children Is a Concentration Camp,” Zócalo Public Square, June 21, 2018

“In the Deepest Arctic, Sled Dogs, Polar Bears and Famed Seed Vault Face Melting Snow and Ice,” The Washington Post, May 26, 2018

“Hell-On,” an introduction to the new Neko Case album, ANTI- Records, March 15, 2018

“The Invention and Evolution of the Concentration Camp,” Zócalo Public Square, October 18, 2017

“How Burma Built Concentration Camps and Got Away with It,” a book excerpt from One Long Night on The Daily Beast, October 9, 2017

“If All I Was Was Black,” an introduction to the new Mavis Staples album, ANTI- Records, September 11, 2017

“The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard 1935-1936,” a review for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2017

“The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” Slate, June 13, 2017

“America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust,” Vox, May 4, 2017

“The Bitter History of ‘Law and Order’ in America,” Longreads, April 6, 2017

“Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports,” Longreads, February 8, 2017

“In the Wake of Pearl Harbor, a Secret Intel Report Could’ve Stopped the Internment Camps,” Zócalo Public Square, January 18, 2017

“What We Get Wrong About Hannah Arendt,” Longreads, January 17, 2017

“Enemy Aliens,” Lapham’s Quarterly, Foreigners issue, Winter 2015

“The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book,” a review for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 1, 2014

“Nabokov Wins One for the Islanders,” McSweeney’s, May 1, 2013. In which New York Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov is fused with his literary namesake.