We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse
We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.
The New Yorker
MOMA’s Judson Dance exhibition featuring the work of Steve Paxton whose choreography drew from ordinary movements, including those of professional athletes on the field.
The New Yorker
How Trump made war on Angela Merkel and Europe.
The New Yorker
Communication Arts Award of Excellence
American Illustration 38 Annual
In The Fourth Child, Jessica Winter conjures a complicated Buffalo clan that adopts an equally complicated second daughter from Romania.
The New York Times Book Review
Susan Sontag and a new collection of her essays: On Women.
The New Yorker
Cover illustration for The New York Times Book Review: The Making of an Ivy League President: Two Women’s Stories. In “Necessary Trouble,” by Drew Gilpin Faust, and “Up Home,” by Ruth J. Simmons, the former presidents of Harvard and Brown recount their unlikely paths to leadership at two of America’s most elite universities.
The New York Times
Two Paths for Jewish Politics: In America, Jews pioneered a way of life that didn’t rely on the whims of the powerful. Now it’s under threat.
The New Yorker
“The Age of Amorality: Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?”
Foreign Affairs
Cover for The New York Times Book Review featuring Salman Rushdie’s review of Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift.
The New York Times
A review of the final book in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy.
The New Yorker
In the underground movement for a new North Korea, only one man knows the extent of its power.
The New Yorker
How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda.
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The writer on growing old, life in quarantine, and the sadness of seeing her city shut down.
The New Yorker
John Mellencamp finds inspiration in aging.
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Kristian Bezuidenhout on the fortepiano.
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Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands?
The New Yorker
For a cultural critic, a sense of humor is integral to his Jewish identity. But these dark times raise existential questions about comedy and its uses.
The New York Times
Cover illustration on Colum McCann’s latest novel Apeirogon.
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Book review of the novel Revolutionaries: “Joshua Furst depicts a counterculture hero from the perspective of his disaffected kid.”
The New Yorker
“Is Slavery’s Legacy in the Power Dynamics of Sports?” Sunday Sports front illustration, part of the New York Times 1619 Project observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
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Outlook front illustration on Ezra Klein’s book Why We’re Polarized.
The Washington Post
What’s left for worker’s if the old jobs don’t return?
The New York Times
Maine hires lawyers with criminal records to defend its poorest residents.
Propublica
Book cover illustration for We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge.
Penguin Random House
The Russian anti-corruption activist, who nearly died in August, talks about his recovery and his future.
The New Yorker
Megha Majumdar and her debut novel A Burning.
The New Yorker
Front page illustration for a special feature on Vladimir Putin, his endless reign, and his distortion of the truth.
The Globe and Mail
Alice Oswald and her Odyssey inspired poetry collection, Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea.
The New Yorker
Alabama’s cervical cancer crisis: “The state’s refusal to expand Medicaid is causing poor women to miss out on lifesaving screenings.”
The New Yorker
Javier Cercas and his latest book Lord of All the Dead: How the great Spanish champion of historical memory turned on the cause.
The New Yorker
“A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare. We’re all in this together. (Or is that just what a socialist would say?)”
The Washington Post
“An African slave finds her vocation in an Italian convent.” A review of Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan.
The New York Times Book Review
Three new books explore the plurality of the transgender experience.
The Atlantic
Body shaming and objectification in high school cheerleading.
The New York Times
A book review of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel Long Island Compromise.
The Washington Post
The poet Diane Seuss and her new collection Modern Poetry.
The New Yorker
Mark Carney’s Next Move: The economist led two central banks through two era-defining upheavals. Is politics his future?
The Walrus
The writer kept returning to the events of her life, but she never pretended that her narrative cohered.
The New Yorker
“It wasn’t hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear”
The Washington Post
Why affordable housing is built in areas with high crime, few jobs and struggling schools.
ProPublica
Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton.”
The New Yorker
A New York Times special section on the state of the newspaper industry and ‘ghost papers’ that wring profits from print for Wall St. even as their newsrooms are gutted.
The New York Times
A woman recounts her struggle with vulvodynia, a chronic and painful pelvic pain disorder: "When I finally found help, I had to wonder who I’d be if I had never learned to fear sex."
Hazlitt
Chosen for American Illustration 37
A review of the novel The Vixen by Francine Prose.
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The New York Times Book Review
Ruth Bader Ginsburg poster for the Wall of Fame poster series.
Harold Grinspoon Foundation
The little-known history of young women incarcerated for gendered status offences like “immorality.”
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Book review illustration for Herman Koch’s novel The Ditch, about a fictional mayor of Amsterdam whose sense of self and country erodes when he suspects his wife is having an affair.
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“The Durable Feeling That a Child Is Always at Risk”: In times of medical crisis, the ways that doctors and nurses communicate with frightened parents can have lifelong effects on infants.
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“Before Balls and Strikes, Umpires Make a Call to Pray”
The New York Times
A personal essay on Autism and the false dichotomy of being atypical: "In my diagnosis, I saw the first irrefutable proof of myself. But so many others saw a referendum on what is means to be atypical."
Hazlitt
For some millennials, climate change clock ticks louder than biological one.
NBC News
A review of Sugar Run by Mesha Maren: After 18 years in prison, a woman tries to find her way home.
The New York Times Book Review
A review of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: “Atwood described writing Offred’s story in the tradition of ‘the literature of witness’ — referring to those accounts left by people bearing witness to the calamities of history they’ve experienced firsthand.”
The New York Times Book Review
A television review of “Years and Years”, a dystopian-realist series set in the very near future.
The New Yorker
Book cover illustration for Power Politics by Margaret Atwood.
House of Anansi Press
Short fiction by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the polish by Jennifer Croft.
Hazlitt
How Reality TV like The Bachelor foreshadowed the drama of the Trump presidency.
The New York Times
On rage vs. empowerment and the generational #metoo divide for The New Yorker’s One Year of #metoo series.
The New Yorker
On the #metoo movement in China for The New Yorker’s One Year of #metoo series.
The New Yorker
New York Times OP-ED illustration: It will take more than a $34,000 drug to stop postpartum depression.
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The New York Times Sketchbook on the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak.
The New York Times
Women in the litigation profession are tearing each other down.
The Studio of Gilbert Li for Precedent Magazine
Book cover illustration for the A List re-issue of Margaret Atwood’s essay collection Moving Targets.
House of Anansi Press
Personal work
A personal series of monotype prints.
Selected for Society of Illustrators 60.
Book cover for Great Expectations: Twenty-Five True Stories about Childbirth.
House of Anansi Press
How to tell when Anti-Zionism strays into Anti-Semitism.
Washington Post
On being Jewish and celebrating Christmas.
Reader’s Digest
Considering, and reconsidering, assisted death.
Washington Post
Film poster for the short film “DRONE”.
First Love Films
Personal work
Personal Work
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
National Post