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Roe v. Wade

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse

We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.

The New Yorker

Sports But Make It Dance

MOMA’s Judson Dance exhibition featuring the work of Steve Paxton whose choreography drew from ordinary movements, including those of professional athletes on the field.

The New Yorker

An Ocean Apart

How Trump made war on Angela Merkel and Europe.

The New Yorker

Communication Arts Award of Excellence

American Illustration 38 Annual

The Fourth Child

In The Fourth Child, Jessica Winter conjures a complicated Buffalo clan that adopts an equally complicated second daughter from Romania.

The New York Times Book Review

Beau Dick

A solo exhibit of carved ceremonial masks by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick.

The New Yorker

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag and a new collection of her essays: On Women.

The New Yorker

Something in the Water

The hallucinatory realism of Rachel Ingalls.

The New Yorker

Climbing the Ivy

Cover illustration for The New York Times Book Review: The Making of an Ivy League President: Two Women’s Stories. In “Necessary Trouble,” by Drew Gilpin Faust, and “Up Home,” by Ruth J. Simmons, the former presidents of Harvard and Brown recount their unlikely paths to leadership at two of America’s most elite universities.

The New York Times

Two Paths for Jewish Politics

Two Paths for Jewish Politics: In America, Jews pioneered a way of life that didn’t rely on the whims of the powerful. Now it’s under threat.

The New Yorker

The Age of Amorality

“The Age of Amorality: Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?”

Foreign Affairs

The Old Drift

Cover for The New York Times Book Review featuring Salman Rushdie’s review of Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift.

The New York Times

The Mirror and the Light

A review of the final book in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy.

The New Yorker

Follow the Leader

In the underground movement for a new North Korea, only one man knows the extent of its power.

The New Yorker

Channelling Putin

How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda.

The New Yorker

Fran Lebowitz

The writer on growing old, life in quarantine, and the sadness of seeing her city shut down.

The New Yorker

John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp finds inspiration in aging.

The New Yorker

Fortepiano

Kristian Bezuidenhout on the fortepiano.

The New Yorker

The Pivotal Justice

Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands?

The New Yorker

Is It Funny for the Jews?

For a cultural critic, a sense of humor is integral to his Jewish identity. But these dark times raise existential questions about comedy and its uses.

The New York Times

Brothers in Grief

Cover illustration on Colum McCann’s latest novel Apeirogon.

The New York Times Book Review

Revolutionaries

Book review of the novel Revolutionaries: “Joshua Furst depicts a counterculture hero from the perspective of his disaffected kid.”

The New Yorker

Echoes of Slavery in the N.B.A.

“Is Slavery’s Legacy in the Power Dynamics of Sports?” Sunday Sports front illustration, part of the New York Times 1619 Project observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

The New York Times

Why We're Polarized

Outlook front illustration on Ezra Klein’s book Why We’re Polarized.

The Washington Post

What's Left for Workers?

What’s left for worker’s if the old jobs don’t return?

The New York Times

Defenseless

Maine hires lawyers with criminal records to defend its poorest residents.

Propublica

We Are Free to Change the World

Book cover illustration for We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge.

Penguin Random House

Alexey Navalny

The Russian anti-corruption activist, who nearly died in August, talks about his recovery and his future.

The New Yorker

A Burning

Megha Majumdar and her debut novel A Burning.

The New Yorker

The Chaos Agent

Front page illustration for a special feature on Vladimir Putin, his endless reign, and his distortion of the truth.

The Globe and Mail

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald and her Odyssey inspired poetry collection, Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea.

The New Yorker

A Deadly Principle

Alabama’s cervical cancer crisis: “The state’s refusal to expand Medicaid is causing poor women to miss out on lifesaving screenings.”

The New Yorker

Lord of All the Dead

Javier Cercas and his latest book Lord of All the Dead: How the great Spanish champion of historical memory turned on the cause.

The New Yorker

Green New Deal, Old Red Scare

“A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare. We’re all in this together. (Or is that just what a socialist would say?)”

The Washington Post

The Saint of Sudan

“An African slave finds her vocation in an Italian convent.” A review of Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan.

The New York Times Book Review

Bodies in Motion

Three new books explore the plurality of the transgender experience.

The Atlantic

Objectification in Cheerleading

Body shaming and objectification in high school cheerleading.

The New York Times

Long Island Compromise

A book review of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel Long Island Compromise.

The Washington Post

Diane Seuss

The poet Diane Seuss and her new collection Modern Poetry.

The New Yorker

Mark Carney

Mark Carney’s Next Move: The economist led two central banks through two era-defining upheavals. Is politics his future?

The Walrus

Sybille Bedford

The writer kept returning to the events of her life, but she never pretended that her narrative cohered.

The New Yorker

Leaving Afghanistan

“It wasn’t hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear”

The Washington Post

Separated by Design

Why affordable housing is built in areas with high crime, few jobs and struggling schools.

ProPublica

My Name is Lucy Barton

Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton.”

The New Yorker

Last Edition

A New York Times special section on the state of the newspaper industry and ‘ghost papers’ that wring profits from print for Wall St. even as their newsrooms are gutted.

The New York Times

The Agony of Intimacy

A woman recounts her struggle with vulvodynia, a chronic and painful pelvic pain disorder: "When I finally found help, I had to wonder who I’d be if I had never learned to fear sex."

Hazlitt

Chosen for American Illustration 37

The Vixen

A review of the novel The Vixen by Francine Prose.

The New York Times Book Review

Saltwater

The New York Times Book Review

RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg poster for the Wall of Fame poster series.

Harold Grinspoon Foundation

Incorrigible

The little-known history of young women incarcerated for gendered status offences like “immorality.”

The New York Times

The Ditch

Book review illustration for Herman Koch’s novel The Ditch, about a fictional mayor of Amsterdam whose sense of self and country erodes when he suspects his wife is having an affair.

The New York Times Book Review

Vulnerable-child Syndrome

“The Durable Feeling That a Child Is Always at Risk”: In times of medical crisis, the ways that doctors and nurses communicate with frightened parents can have lifelong effects on infants.

The New Yorker

Asylum Checkup

What a pediatrician can do for a child seeking asylum–and what she can’t.

The New Yorker

Umpires Who Pray

“Before Balls and Strikes, Umpires Make a Call to Pray”

The New York Times

Atypical

A personal essay on Autism and the false dichotomy of being atypical: "In my diagnosis, I saw the first irrefutable proof of myself. But so many others saw a referendum on what is means to be atypical."

Hazlitt

Children or Climate Change?

For some millennials, climate change clock ticks louder than biological one.

NBC News

Sugar Run

A review of Sugar Run by Mesha Maren: After 18 years in prison, a woman tries to find her way home.

The New York Times Book Review

The Heavens

Book review of The Heavens by Sandra Newman.

The New York Times Book Review

The Testaments

A review of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: “Atwood described writing Offred’s story in the tradition of ‘the literature of witness’ — referring to those accounts left by people bearing witness to the calamities of history they’ve experienced firsthand.”

The New York Times Book Review

Years and Years

A television review of “Years and Years”, a dystopian-realist series set in the very near future.

The New Yorker

Faith & Reproductive Justice

On faith and reproductive justice in the South: “Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.”

Longreads

Power Politics

Book cover illustration for Power Politics by Margaret Atwood.

House of Anansi Press

All Saints' Mountain

Short fiction by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the polish by Jennifer Croft.

Hazlitt

Most Dramatic Presidency Ever

How Reality TV like The Bachelor foreshadowed the drama of the Trump presidency.

The New York Times

One Year of #metoo

On rage vs. empowerment and the generational #metoo divide for The New Yorker’s One Year of #metoo series.

The New Yorker

One Year of #metoo

On the #metoo movement in China for The New Yorker’s One Year of #metoo series.

The New Yorker

Postpartum Depression

New York Times OP-ED illustration: It will take more than a $34,000 drug to stop postpartum depression.

The New York Times

Suspect Lettuce

The New York Times Sketchbook on the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak.

The New York Times

Mean Girls

Women in the litigation profession are tearing each other down. 

The Studio of Gilbert Li for Precedent Magazine

Moving Targets

Book cover illustration for the A List re-issue of Margaret Atwood’s essay collection Moving Targets.

House of Anansi Press

Bakkhai

Personal work

Summer Monotypes

A personal series of monotype prints.

Selected for Society of Illustrators 60.


Great Expectations

Book cover for Great Expectations: Twenty-Five True Stories about Childbirth.

House of Anansi Press

Anti-Zionism

How to tell when Anti-Zionism strays into Anti-Semitism.

Washington Post

Jewish Christmas

On being Jewish and celebrating Christmas.

Reader’s Digest

Choose Your Own Ending

Considering, and reconsidering, assisted death. 

Washington Post

DRONE

Film poster for the short film “DRONE”.

First Love Films

Me Too

Personal work

Restroom Signs

Personal Work

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

National Post

Roe v. Wade

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Sports But Make It Dance

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An Ocean Apart

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The Fourth Child

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Beau Dick

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Susan Sontag

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Something in the Water

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Climbing the Ivy

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Two Paths for Jewish Politics

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The Age of Amorality

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The Old Drift

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The Mirror and the Light

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Follow the Leader

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Channelling Putin

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Fran Lebowitz

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John Mellencamp

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Fortepiano

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The Pivotal Justice

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Is It Funny for the Jews?

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Brothers in Grief

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Revolutionaries

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Echoes of Slavery in the N.B.A.

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Why We're Polarized

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What's Left for Workers?

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Defenseless

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We Are Free to Change the World

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Alexey Navalny

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A Burning

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The Chaos Agent

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Alice Oswald

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A Deadly Principle

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Lord of All the Dead

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Green New Deal, Old Red Scare

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The Saint of Sudan

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Bodies in Motion

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Objectification in Cheerleading

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Long Island Compromise

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Diane Seuss

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Mark Carney

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Sybille Bedford

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Leaving Afghanistan

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Separated by Design

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My Name is Lucy Barton

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Last Edition

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The Agony of Intimacy

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The Vixen

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Saltwater

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RBG

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Incorrigible

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The Ditch

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Vulnerable-child Syndrome

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Asylum Checkup

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Umpires Who Pray

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Atypical

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Children or Climate Change?

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Sugar Run

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The Heavens

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The Testaments

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Years and Years

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Faith & Reproductive Justice

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Power Politics

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All Saints' Mountain

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Most Dramatic Presidency Ever

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One Year of #metoo

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One Year of #metoo

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Postpartum Depression

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Suspect Lettuce

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Mean Girls

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Moving Targets

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Bakkhai

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Summer Monotypes

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Great Expectations

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Anti-Zionism

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Jewish Christmas

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Choose Your Own Ending

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DRONE

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Me Too

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Restroom Signs

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Aung San Suu Kyi

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