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2023 / Wiesbaden (American Short Fiction)
2022 / On trails in Kurdistan (The New York Times Magazine) / On a history of plagues (Virginia Quarterly Review) / Auf einen Fernwanderweg durch Kurdistan (NZZ Magazin) / Kann der Subwoofer sprechen? (Refugees Worldwide III)
2021 / Inside Xinjiang's prison state (The New Yorker) / On survival in a reeducation camp (The New Yorker) / On the Cordillera Central (Granta Magazine) / On internment camps in Xinjiang (The New Yorker Radio Hour) / On the global war on terror (Reason Magazine)
2020 / On a pandemic in Penang (The New York Review of Books Daily)
2019 / On the border of China and Kazakhstan (The New York Times Magazine) / An oral history of China's mass internment drive (The Believer) / Silencing Xinjiang's loudest critic (London Review of Books) / On nationalism in the Caucasus (Virginia Quarterly Review) / On the last uranium prospector (Pacific Standard) / On nations at the Venice Biennale (frieze magazine)
2018 / On Cambodia's floating villages (The New York Times Magazine) / On the politics of listening (frieze magazine)
2017 / On uranium dreams (Harper's Magazine) / On bombing people (Granta Magazine) / On a year in a German village (Virginia Quarterly Review) / On a year in a German village — abridged (The Guardian) / On fearing the foreign (Granta Magazine) / Auf den deutschen Wahlkampf (Cicero) / On Cuba and the space race (The Believer)
2016 / On an arson epidemic (London Review of Books) / On urban periphery (The Towner) / On the rise of the German right (n+1) / On art and apocalypse (The Paris Review) / On Oury Jalloh's death (International Notice) / An interview with Jeff Krulik (Vice)
2015 / On jobs for refugees (The New Yorker) / On Syria's rapper-in-exile (Vice Magazine) / On private art museums (The New Yorker) / An interview with Pinar Yoldas (Guernica) / On a Tarkovsky retrospective (Vice) / At a Czech lenten festival (The Paris Review) / On Roman Signer (Serpentine) / On Berlin's art scene (The Paris Review) / At the Berlinale: Panahi, Herzog, and Jacquot (Vice)
2014 / On a broken vase (The New Yorker) / On book-breaking (The New Yorker) / On Walter Benjamin (The American Reader) / On an art-world quagmire (The New Yorker) / On Donald Antrim (The Los Angeles Review of Books) / On the legacy of reunification (The New Yorker) / On the Ludlow Massacre (The New Yorker) / On office decor (The New Yorker) / On a Marxist copyright fight (The New Yorker) / On art and labor in Abu Dhabi (The New Yorker) / Stethoscope (The Sun) / I'm Your Shade (Day One)
2013 / On gamification (The New Yorker) / On art and Amazon (The New Yorker) / On Javier Marías (The Los Angeles Review of Books)
2012 / On miscellany (The Los Angeles Review of Books) / On detective fiction and dreams (The Believer) / On Geoff Dyer (The Iowa Review)
2022 / On trails in Kurdistan (The New York Times Magazine) / On a history of plagues (Virginia Quarterly Review) / Auf einen Fernwanderweg durch Kurdistan (NZZ Magazin) / Kann der Subwoofer sprechen? (Refugees Worldwide III)
2021 / Inside Xinjiang's prison state (The New Yorker) / On survival in a reeducation camp (The New Yorker) / On the Cordillera Central (Granta Magazine) / On internment camps in Xinjiang (The New Yorker Radio Hour) / On the global war on terror (Reason Magazine)
2020 / On a pandemic in Penang (The New York Review of Books Daily)
2019 / On the border of China and Kazakhstan (The New York Times Magazine) / An oral history of China's mass internment drive (The Believer) / Silencing Xinjiang's loudest critic (London Review of Books) / On nationalism in the Caucasus (Virginia Quarterly Review) / On the last uranium prospector (Pacific Standard) / On nations at the Venice Biennale (frieze magazine)
2018 / On Cambodia's floating villages (The New York Times Magazine) / On the politics of listening (frieze magazine)
2017 / On uranium dreams (Harper's Magazine) / On bombing people (Granta Magazine) / On a year in a German village (Virginia Quarterly Review) / On a year in a German village — abridged (The Guardian) / On fearing the foreign (Granta Magazine) / Auf den deutschen Wahlkampf (Cicero) / On Cuba and the space race (The Believer)
2016 / On an arson epidemic (London Review of Books) / On urban periphery (The Towner) / On the rise of the German right (n+1) / On art and apocalypse (The Paris Review) / On Oury Jalloh's death (International Notice) / An interview with Jeff Krulik (Vice)
2015 / On jobs for refugees (The New Yorker) / On Syria's rapper-in-exile (Vice Magazine) / On private art museums (The New Yorker) / An interview with Pinar Yoldas (Guernica) / On a Tarkovsky retrospective (Vice) / At a Czech lenten festival (The Paris Review) / On Roman Signer (Serpentine) / On Berlin's art scene (The Paris Review) / At the Berlinale: Panahi, Herzog, and Jacquot (Vice)
2014 / On a broken vase (The New Yorker) / On book-breaking (The New Yorker) / On Walter Benjamin (The American Reader) / On an art-world quagmire (The New Yorker) / On Donald Antrim (The Los Angeles Review of Books) / On the legacy of reunification (The New Yorker) / On the Ludlow Massacre (The New Yorker) / On office decor (The New Yorker) / On a Marxist copyright fight (The New Yorker) / On art and labor in Abu Dhabi (The New Yorker) / Stethoscope (The Sun) / I'm Your Shade (Day One)
2013 / On gamification (The New Yorker) / On art and Amazon (The New Yorker) / On Javier Marías (The Los Angeles Review of Books)
2012 / On miscellany (The Los Angeles Review of Books) / On detective fiction and dreams (The Believer) / On Geoff Dyer (The Iowa Review)