Some Favorites:
June 06, 2018
These messages are mirrors, a chance to reflect back to ourselves a hopeful, idealized version of what we want to be remembered for and how we want to be seen.
January 10, 2020
My latest column for the New York Times Book Review.
February 06, 2017
Every episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me begins with the same disclaimer: "The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed." The podcast’s hundreds of thousands of fans listen to everything the McElroy brothers say—except that.
Here's everything:
Essays / Features
Southwest: Once in a Babymoon
The Cut: I Love My Weird Pregnancy Skin-Care Routine
Popular Science: Could astrobiology research convince us to fight climate change?
Frere-Jones Type: Archaeology and Invention: Designing Empirica
Backstage: Ben Foster Crams a Life’s Worth of Experience Into Every Role
Medium: The Strangely Human Messages We Send To Aliens
Something Incredible Waiting to Be Known
Electric Literature: Why We Still Need Aunt Beast
The Cut: Yoga Pants Are the Best Pants
BuzzFeed Books: Who Gets A Happily Ever After In 2018?
Electric Literature: I Spent 24 Hours Reading Last Weekend and I Didn’t Lose My Mind
Brooklyn Magazine: “When People Ask for Advice”: My Brother, My Brother, and Me Brings Their Good-Guy Podcast to TV
Catapult: Reading for an Audience
Longreads: The Fullness of a Moment
American Theatre online: Dancing on the Edge
The Toast: The French Toast Test
The Rumpus: Aftermath
The Cossack: A Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (print)
Everyday Genius: Dirty Hands
The Awl: Embrace Your Prairie Looks and Make Some Applesauce
Criticism / Reviews / Interviews
The Cut: Is This the Millennial Parent Book? (Q&A with Emily Oster)
Vulture: Why You Should Be Reading Romance Novels
New York Times Book Review: Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places
All's Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels
Four Delicious New Romance Novels
The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More
In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage
Nylon: Type A(my): An Ode To ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ For Celebrating Ambitious, Perfectionist Women
The Rumpus: It's Just Reality: Talking With Meaghan O'Connell
GQ.com: Leslie Jamison Wants You to Rethink Your Drunk Literary Heroes (Q&A)
Thrillist: The Best Books of 2018 (So Far)
Vulture: Alyssa Cole on Why Her Romance Novels Are Always Political
Unbound Worlds: The Word for Empathy is Sci-Fi: On Le Guin, Kress, and Kindness
Slate: On Election Day 2017, Do Yourself a Favor and Turn Off Facebook Memories
Google Play Editorial: Google Play's Summer Reading (list)
Extra Crispy: The Science of Breakfast Time, According to Alan Burdick
The Morning News: Bats of the Republic v. The Turner House (Tournament of Books)
Slate: Founding Father Fails (Q&A with Sarah Vowell)
The Millions: Cohesion Is Not Continuity: On Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness
The Oyster Review: Context and the City (on Choire Sicha's Very Recent History)
The Rumpus: The Last Book I Loved: The Unnamed
BuzzFeed Books: It’s Always Spilling Over the Edges (Q&A with Leslie Jamison)
Hooded Utilitarian: Clybourne Park is Lying to You
The Awl: How Are We to Listen to Classical Music?
Download the Universe: Can the Wonders of the Universe Fit on an iPad?
The Awl: How Spring Awakening Changed the Business of Musical Theatre
Google Play Editorial: Edan Lepucki, Mary Roach, Colson Whitehead, Zan Romanoff, Rivka Galchen, Elizabeth Greenwood, Brandon Sanderson, Jeff VanderMeer.
Etc.
I've written about science, health, and anything else for Lifehacker—here's everything of mine there.
I've also written about new research in astrophysics and astrobiology at The Planetary Society and Astrobites.