Start Here:
“The Elusive, Maddening Mystery of the Bell Witch” Atlas Obscura (May 2023)
Land of Delusion: Out on the Edge with the Crackpots and Conspiracy Mongers Remaking Our Shared Reality (Scribd Originals, November 2022)
“The Cabin on the Mountain” Longreads (April 2022)
“The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs. Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic” Lithub (December 2021)
“Palindromes, Palindromes, Motherfucker, What!” The Believer (February 2020), Best American Essays Notable Selection
“The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling” Longreads (March 2019)
“Building in the Shadow of Our Own Destruction” Longreads (April 2017)
“A Maddening Sound: Is the Hum, a Mysterious Sound Heard Around the World, Science or Mass Delusion?” New Republic (April 2016)
“Behind the Draped Mirror” Hazlitt (September 2015)
“Above the Ice” Paris Review (April 2014)
“Pitch Battles: How a Paranoid Fringe Group Made Musical Tuning an International Issue” The Believer (January 2013)
Most Recent:
“What Winchester Gets Wrong About an American Landmark” New Republic (February 2018)
“Wards Against the Day” Catapult (September 2016)
“Living in the Margins: The Odd and Amusing World of Medieval Marginalia” Lapham’s Quarterly (March 2012)
“Quack Prophet” Lapham’s Quarterly (Summer 2011)
“Necropolis” Lapham’s Quarterly (Fall 2010)