Selected works

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The Pushkin Heist: 

Who is stealing rare editions of Russian classics?

1843 Magazine

August 22, 2025

Book Review: "Freedom," by Angela Merkel

The New York Times Book Review

November 26, 2024

Is it Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes his Mind

The New York Times Magazine

October 27, 2024

Poland's War on Two Fronts

The New York Times Magazine

April 4, 2023

How the Claremont Institute became a Nerve Center of the American Right

The New York Times Magazine

August 3, 2022

Mohamed Bourouissa’s Staged Portraits of Youth on the Peripheries of Paris

Aperture

April 2022

How the American Right Fell in Love with Hungary

The New York Times Magazine

October 19, 2021

I Always Write with a Sense of Shame

The New York Times Magazine

March 31, 2020

A Novel Imagines the Life of the Man Who Discovered Camus 

New York Times Book Review

April 2020

The Causes and Consequences of Berlin's Rapid Gentrification 

The New Yorker

July 2019

Viktor Orban's Far-Right Vision for Europe

The New Yorker

January 7, 2019

Can a New Generation in the Banlieues Change French Politics? 

The New York Times Magazine

June 7, 2017