The story of how Buy Nothing tried to break away from Facebook and broke apart (Wired, 2/23). A reported essay about how AI is changing literature (Wired, 9/23). A personal essay about my relationship, as an Indian-American writer, with Jhumpa Lahiri (The New York Times, 9/23).

An investigation into Shein, the mysterious giant of fast fashion (Wired, 5/22). A personal essay about keeping a long literary project alive (Lithub, 5/22).

A review of Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment (The Atlantic, 3/21). An essay, co-written with an AI algorithm, about grieving my sister (The Believer, 8/21, adapted for This American Life, 12/21).

An as-told-to profile of a funeral director in the early days of Covid-19 (The New York Times Magazine, 4/20). A review of Reeves Wiedeman’s Billion Dollar Loser (The Atlantic, 11/20).

An exploration of the myths and realities of tiny homes (The Believer, 2/19). An oral history of globalization (Businessweek, 7/19). An essay made of ten years of Googling (The New York Times, 12/19).

A look at how Democrats are trying to turn Orange County blue (The New Republic, 5/18). A profile of Element AI, an AI startup trying to break Big Tech’s stronghold (Fortune, 6/18).

A look inside the competitive Indian-American spelling scene (Harper’s, 5/17). Following a tech founder trying to make it outside of Silicon Valley (Wired, 5/17). A profile of Y Combinator’s Sam Altman (California Sunday, 9/17). An essay on unions’ divergent histories in Germany and the U.S. (The Atlantic, 12/17).

An exploration of Silicon Valley’s failure to hire more Black coders, through the experience of four Howard computer-science students (Businessweek, 1/16). A trip through Colorado’s pot tourism scene (Travel & Leisure, 4/16). A profile of an entrepreneur who says she can predict a child’s life outcomes — but not all her claims add up. (Backchannel, 5/16). A look at a Microsoft program focused on hiring neurodivergent coders (Fast Company, 9/16).

A profile of California First Lady Anne Gust Brown (California Sunday, 6/15).

As the New Yorker’s business editor and then a contributing writer, from 2013 to 2015, I wrote a lot of pieces for the New Yorker’s website. Prior to that, as a Wall Street Journal reporter from 2004 to 2013, I wrote many stories for the Wall Street Journal.