RECENT ARTICLES
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Cover stories
- "The Last Day" 5.17.2015
- "A Life-or-Death Situation" 7.21.2013
- "What Is It About 20-Somethings?" 8.22.2010
- "Understanding the Anxious Mind" 10.4.2009
- "The Medical Detectives" 2.22.2009
- "Taking Play Seriously" 2.17.2008
- "The Real Transformers" 7.29.2007
- "Darwin's God" 3.4.2007
- "Fat Factors" 8.13.2006
- "Looking for the Lie" 2.5.2006
- "Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death?" 8.7.2005
- "Flu Pandemic" 11.29.1992
- "Saving Babies Before Birth" 2.28.1982
Feature articles
- "Racing With Sam" 1.30.2005
- "The Genome in Black and White (and Gray)" 10.10.2004
- "The Quest to Forget" 4.4.2004
- "Is Forgetting Your Glasses Alzheimer's Disease?" 4.24.1994
- "Are Women's Hearts Different?" 10.3.1993
- "Asthma Kills" 3.28.1993
- "Dr. Anderson's Gene Machine" 3.31.1991
- "In Business to Treat Cancer" 11.23.1986
- "AIDS: A New Disease's Deadly Odyssey" 2.6.1983
- "Dispelling Menstrual Myths" 3.7.1982
- "The Child Savers" 3.22.1981
- "The Case for Mother's Milk" 7.8.1979
- "Exposing the Myth of Senility" 12.3.1978
Earlier New York Times articles: Magazine columns ("Body and Mind" monthly contributor, "Idea Lab," "Lives," "Hers"); articles in the Book Review, Sunday Styles, Science Times, and op-ed; posts for the NYT blogs Motherlode, The 6th Floor, and The New Old Age
PERSONAL ESSAYS
- "We're All Second-Guessing Ourselves Now," The Atlantic "Family" section, 8.2021
- "This is What Life Looks Like After Vaccination," The Atlantic "Ideas" column, 3.2021
- "I Felt Fine, But Tested Positive for the Coronavirus," NPR Shots blog, 12.2020
- "Why Weren't We Ready for This Virus?" National Geographic, 7.2020
- "I Miss My Grandchildren," The Atlantic "Ideas" column, 5.2020
- "The Ecstasy and Agony of Being a Grandmother," The New York Times, 12.2018
- "Guess I'll Go Eat Worms," Archipelago, 4.2011
- "My Bonsai Breasts," NYCityWoman, 8.2011
- "The Fat Fight," O Magazine, 12.2009
- "Choosing Not to Choose," The New York Times "New Old Age" blog, 4.2009
- "Something's Off," The New York Times Magazine "Lives" column, 10.2004
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Bookforum
- "The Ravages of Alzheimer's" 8.2015
- "Unchained Melody" 6.2014
- "Last Call" 4.2014
National Geographic
- "In Science We Must Trust" 11.2020
- "Why Weren't We Ready for This Virus?" 7.2020
- "The Microbiome Menagerie" 1.2020
- "Rethinking Gender" 1.2017
- "Crossing Over: How Science is Redefining Life and Death" 4.2016
O: The Oprah Magazine
- "The Agony and, Yes, the Ecstasy of Menopause" 10.2019
- "The Fat Fight" (with Jess Zimmerman) 12.2009
OnEarth
- "Parkinson's: The Pesticide Link" summer 2009
- "Our Silver-Coated Future" fall 2007
Prevention
- "Obesogens" 1.2014
Science News
- "What 20th century science fiction got right and wrong about the future of babies" 7.2021
- "Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions" 6.2021
- "Positive attitudes about aging may pay off in better health," 7.2019
Scientific American
- "Lifting the Black Cloud" 3.2012
- "When Does Life Belong to the Living?" 9.2010
- "Pandora's Baby" 6.2003
- "Living Longer: What Really Works" summer 2000
Smithsonian
- "Saving Miss Vanessa" April 2018
Virginia Quarterly Review
- "How to Write Science" fall 2012
Wired
- "Frozen in Time" April 2018
Earlier magazine articles appeared in American Health, Civilization, Child, Discover, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, The L.A. Times, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Ms. Newsday, Redbook, Self, Vogue, USA Today, The Washington Post, and Woman's Day
WEB-ONLY ARTICLES
Archipelago
- "Guess I'll Go Eat Worms" 7.30.2014
The Atlantic
- "The Unspoken Wedge Between Parents and Grandparents" 4.30.2021
- "Grandparents Could Ease Burden of Homeschooling" 9.10.2020
- "Generation of Grandparents Who Keep Grandchildren Afloat" 1.30.2019
- "There's No Innocent Way to Ask About Grandkids" 8.16.2018
- "Grandparents Raising Grandchildren" 6.1.2018
- "Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide" 3.27.2014
National Geographic
- "Experts Warned of a Pandemic Decades Ago" 4.8.2020
- "Are There Genes for Intelligence?" 12.11.2015
- "Scientists Create Personalized Stem Cells" 4.28.2014
- "Surgeons to Put Gunshot Victims Into Suspended Animation" 4.2.2014
Nautilus
- "Did Grief Give Him Parkinson's?" 2.26.2015
New York
- "The Unshakeable Optimism of the Modern Thirtysomething" 9.8.2014
Newsweek/The Daily Beast
- "How Many Facebook Friends?" (with Samantha Henig) 10.22.2012
- "Is Violence Finished?" 10.3.2011
NPR "Shots" Blog
- "I Felt Fine, But Tested Positive for the Coronavirus," 12.2020
- "Psychedelic Drug Helps Cancer Patients Overcome Anxiety" 12.3.2016
- "Give Thanks for Siblings" 11.2019, 11.2017, 11.2016, 11.2015, 11.2014
- "Hope Races Ahead of Evidence in Magnets for Autism" 7.9.2016
- "Despite Sweeping Aid-in-Dying Law, Few Will Have Option" 10.7.2015
- "Freezing Eggs May Reduce Odds of IVF Success" 8.28.2015
- "Early Push to HPV Vaccine May Have Backfired" 7.14.2015
- "No One Should Have Right to Prolong My Death" 7.7.2015
- "If You Have Dementia, Can You Hasten Death?" 2.10.2015
- "Transgender Men Who Become Pregnant" 11.7.2014
- "Women Pick Brains Over Looks in Egg Donors" 11.2.2014
NYCityWoman
- "When It's Time to Let Go of Your Adult Child" 2.2013
- "Co-Authoring a Book With My 20-Something Daughter" 12.2012
- "My Bonsai Breasts" 8.2011
Scientific American
- "The Devastating Loss of Grandparents Among One Million COVID Dead" 3.2022
Slate
- "Should You Freeze Your Eggs?" 10.1.2014
- "The Ties That Blind" 2.9.2012
- "If 'Modern Bride' is a Has-Been, What Does That Make Me?" 10.6.2009
- "Monkeying With Motherhood" 9.8.2009
- "Why Did Summer Stiers Die?" 7.9.2009
EDITING
Inside Climate News
Longform feature editing, 2017-2020
Undark
Longform feature editing, 2018
Virginia Quarterly Review
Longform feature editing, 2014-2018