The New York Times Magazine
The Long Road from Xinjiang
​On trails in Kurdistan
On the border of China and Kazakhstan
On Cambodia's floating villages

Harper’s Magazine
On uranium dreams

The New York Review of Books
On the American photobook
On a pandemic in Penang

London Review of Books
Silencing Xinjiang's loudest critic
On an arson epidemic

Granta Magazine
On the Gran Cordillera Central
On bombing people
​On fearing the foreign

The Believer
On China's mass internment drive
On Cuba and the space race
On detective fiction and dreams

The Dial
On Europe’s Last Wilderness
On Germany and Civil Liberties

frieze magazine
On nations at the Venice Biennale
On the politics of listening

The Paris Review Daily
On art and apocalypse
At a Czech lenten festival
On Berlin's art scene

Vice Magazine
On Syria's rapper-in-exile
An interview with Jeff Krulik
On a Tarkovsky retrospective
At the ​Berlinale: Panahi, Herzog, and Jacquot

The Los Angeles Review of Books
​On Donald Antrim
On Javier Marías
​On miscellany

The New Yorker
Inside Xinjiang's prison state
On survival in a reeducation camp (film)
On internment camps in Xinjiang (radio)
On jobs for refugees
On private art museums
On a broken vase
On book-breaking
On an art-world quagmire
On the legacy of reunification
On the Ludlow Massacre
On office decor
On a Marxist copyright fight
On art and labor in Abu Dhabi
On gamification
On art and Amazon

Virginia Quarterly Review
On a history of plagues
On nationalism in the Caucasus
On a year in a German village

n+1
Freedom for the One Who Thinks Differently
On the rise of the German right

Fiction
Wiesbaden (American Short Fiction)​
Stethoscope (The Sun)
I'm Your Shade (Day One)

Elsewhere
A conversation with Sarah Schulman (The Diasporist)
On James C. Scott (The Nation)
Auf einen Fernwanderweg durch Kurdistan (NZZ Magazin)
Kann der Subwoofer sprechen? (Refugees Worldwide III)
On the global war on terror (Reason Magazine)
On the last uranium prospector (Pacific Standard)
On a year in a German village abridged(The Guardian)
Auf den deutschen Wahlkampf (Cicero)
On urban periphery (The Towner)
An interview with Pinar Yoldas (Guernica)
On Roman Signer (Serpentine)
On Walter Benjamin (The American Reader)
​On Geoff Dyer (The Iowa Review)

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