Literary Reportage

Darshana Narayanan (Literary Reportage, 2023)

How fetuses learn to ‘talk’ while they’re still in the womb | Aeon Essays When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb?

Shaan Merchant (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Delighting in the Lavender Fields of Central Spain By welcoming visitors with glorious scents and a natural beauty that rivals Provence in France, the annual lavender harvest has revitalized the medieval town of Brihuega.

Garrett Owen (Literary Reportage, 2025)

Overnight at Diner24, NYC’s newest 24-hour restaurant and bar We hung out at the new Manhattan diner from 11pm to 7am. Here’s what it was like.

Inge Oosterhoff (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Evetta Petty Is Bringing Harlem to the Royals Meet the first Black milliner to join the Royal Ascot Millinery Collective.

Laura Jedeed (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Inside the Rise and Fall of Project Veritas James O’Keefe helped transform U.S. conservatism into a war machine with his undercover videos — then it all imploded

Last Thursday was graduation at the Beacon Theater, and the 2024 Literary Reportage reading. Everybody did well, and it was great to meet so many parents, friends, and loved ones.

James Shapiro spoke at the New York Institute for the Humanities in 2014 about Shakespeare in America, the anthology he edited for the Library of America. He is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Liza Featherstone (Literary Reportage Faculty) https://newrepublic.com/article/181539/artificial-turf-pfas-children-playing-fields-rye?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR09FbCOoY8gFLHf8uwRVo8mnVssTbRUJG7phOUWqjWhCXkpEg0TqKxjVBE_aem_AdUX7U0iKD3VHqB1YJyaDaw4-TarN15WrkqB-t9J3fCd-CIu6mBGDB1fr111RDivuYjYvQ9JVTMC0btTgFWgJpgx

Artificial Turf Is Tearing Towns Apart The PFAS in playing fields—and the open question of what they might do to kids—is turning into a culture war.

May 7, 6-8
Free and open to the public

The Shooter at Midnight - NYU Journalism The Shooter at Midnight Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided: a conversation with Sean Cooper. Sponsored by Literary Reportage

Rayan El-Amine (Literary Reportage, 2026)

Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World Talking with the translators of Wissam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book whose genesis is as extraordinary as its contents.

Join Lit Rep alum Sean Cooper and Matthew Wolfe for a discussion of Sean's new book on May 7 (6-8) at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square). Non-NYU visitors attendees must register in advance.

Meagan Saliashvili (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Inspired by the Confederacy and Czarist Russia, "Ortho Bros" Are on the Rise A Houston-area priest is part of a group of religious leaders who draw followers interested in conspiracy theories and authoritarian government.

Ted Conover (Literary Reportage Faculty)

“Please I Will Give Anything for You to Come Back” Why did a mother with no backcountry experience take her sister and 13-year-old son to live off the grid on a 10,000-foot mountain during a Colorado winter?

Congratulations to Literary Reportage graduate Michael Levy on the launch of his new magazine, Summit Journal!

Summit Journal - America's Original Climbing Magazine Summit Journal is a biannual print magazine about rock climbing and its culture, chronicling the sport’s rich history while also charting its future. We’re here to tell the long stories. Of hard-won victory and harrowing survival. Of daring and dirtbaggery. Of connection and commitment.

Come join us on January 31 as we celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Flock's new book. Liz will be in conversation with Jen Percy.
Make sure to use the rsvp form so that non-NYU folks can get into the building.

Book Talk - The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice - NYU Journalism Join Literary Reportage alum Elizabeth Flock in a discussion with author/journalist Jen Percy about her new book, released this year.

Rayan El Amine (Literary Reportage, 2025)

The Unprecedented Killing of Journalists Is Affecting Coverage of Gaza The region’s media has been jolted, as the losses themselves have become part of a conflict of narratives and Western voices have wavered

Anna Venarchik (Literary Reportage, 2021)

Yes, They’re Pro-Confederacy. But They’re Just the Nicest Ladies! You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends …

Mormei Zanke (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Chasing Chop Suey: Tracing Chinese Immigration Through Food One family’s distant past, the “authentic” Chinese immigrant experience, and a dish that contains multitudes.

Kim Nederveen Pieterse (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Getting Better at Resolving Conflicts : The Pulse In March of 2022, the war in Ukraine was weighing heavily on Fabian Falch, a Norwegian tech entrepreneur. The Russian government had started to censor news stories and social media posts about the war, and Falch wondered how Russian citizens would be able to access information, let alone voice criti...

Rayan El Amine (Literary Reportage, 2025)

Flooding the Heart of Empire | The Baffler On November 4, over one hundred thousand marched in Washington. Eight writers and activists reflect on the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history.

Congratulations to Anna Venarchik (Literary Reportage, 2022)

Introducing Three New Editing Residents | The New York Times Company Lars Dolder, Anna Venarchik and Reece Taylor Williams are joining The Times as members of our Editing Residency. Read more in this note from Ted Kim, Carla Correa and Alexa Mills.

Congratulations to Literary Reportage alum Mathew Rodriguez

Nayanika Guha (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Measuring Dobbs’ Lasting Harm On the anniversary of the SCOTUS decision that overthrew Roe, two Chicago-based pro-choice groups discuss what the fallout has been.

Liza Featherstone (Literary Reportage Faculty)

New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen? We don't have to settle for neoliberal half-measures.

Join us on October 4 when Andrew Leland speaks with Gideon Lewis-Kraus about Andrew's new book, The Country of the Blind.

The event is free and open to the public. Make sure to sign up via Eventbrite if you aren't affiliated with NYU. Signed books will be sold.

A Discussion with Andrew Leland With Gideon Lewis-Kraus.

Meg Duff (Literary Reportage, 2022)

In-N-Out, Weirdly, Is a Climate Change Indicator A warming planet is more hospitable to palm trees. The iconic SoCal chain is obsessed with them.

Yucheng Tang (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Young Chinese opt out of the rat race and pressures at home to pursue global nomad lifestyle A growing number of young Chinese are moving overseas to escape their homeland's ultra-competitive work culture, limited opportunities and family pressures.

Sarah Baik (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Proof Podcast | America's Test Kitchen We tell the weird and surprising and funny backstories around food and drink. Proof goes beyond recipes and cooking to ask the big questions and uncover the hidden backstories that feed your food-obsessed brain. Hosted by Bridget Lancaster. A production of America's Test Kitchen.