Selected Writing
features and investigations
Where the Children Are Buried, The Walrus, May 2023
Visions of Valeria, Columbia Journalism Review, April 2023
Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo, The Walrus, March/April 2022 (Canadian National Magazine Award finalist; Longreads top ten feature of the year)
The Parisians Housing Refugees During the Pandemic, The New Yorker, April, 2021.
The Price of Freedom, Guernica, November, 2020. (One of Longform’s weekly top five long-form narratives.)
In Plain Sight: The Search for Syrian War Criminals in Europe, Harper’s, August, 2020. (One of Longform’s weekly top five long-form narratives.)
The Agony of Srebrenica, 25 Years On, The Guardian, July, 2020.
Grindr is Helping Tackle Ghana’s Hidden HIV Epidemic, Esquire UK, June, 2020.
Searching for Mackie, The Walrus and Longreads, March, 2020. (Winner of a Canadian National Magazine Award; one of Longform’s weekly top five long-form narratives; shortlisted for the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism.)
Caught Between Borders, Longreads, June, 2019.
Canada Questions the Safety of Asylum-Seekers, The New Yorker, May, 2019.
How the U.S. Became a Haven for War Criminals, The New Republic, April, 2019. (Shortlisted for the True Story Award.)
Close to Home: Liberia’s Unmarked Graves, Harper’s, January, 2019.
Trump’s War on African Women, Longreads, October, 2017.
Dirty Laundry, Dissent, Summer 2017.
Canada’s Mining Wars in Guatemala, The Walrus, June, 2017.
OTHER
Respite (The New Yorker)
I Can See You Are Gay; I Will Kill You (The New York Times)
The Teenager Helping Polish Women Flee Abuse (The Guardian)
The Free Labor Force of Wives (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Proof of Age (London Review of Books)
The Ethics of Paying Sources (Columbia Journalism Review)
No Rights, Only Duties (London Review of Books)
Safe House (Pacific Standard)
Macron Turns his Back on Refugee Women (The New Republic)