Music & Literature (?)

"Kamasi Washington's Giant Step"
The New York Times Magazine, 2015

"Who’s afraid of ‘Klinghoffer’?"
London Review of Books Blog, 2014

"The Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco"
New York Review of Books, 2016

"The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone"
New York Review of Books, 2016

"Le Jazz Hot," on the history of jazz in France
New York Review of Books, 2015

"The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix"
New York Review of Books, 2014

"Bird!" on Charlie Parker
New York Review of Books

the middle east (?)

"Stranger Still," a profile of Kamel Daoud
The New York Times Magazine, 2015

"The Daoud Affair"
London Review of Books, 2016

"The Jewish Question," on Jean Daniel
New York Review of Books, 2005

"In Search of Hezbollah, Part I"
"In Search of Hezbollah, Part II"
New York Review of Books, 2004

"Algeria's Failed Revolution"
New York Review of Books, 2003

"The Torture of Algiers," on France, Algeria, and memory
New York Review of Books, 2002

"One Big Murder Mystery," on Yasmina Khadra
London Review of Books, 2004

"Invisible Walls," on Michel Warschawski
London Review of Books, 2005

"Laptop Jihadi," on Abu Musab al-Suri
London Review of Books, 2005