The Evolution of Mothering: A Q&A with Dr. Robert Martin
Robert Martin has been studying the way humans have sex for his entire academic career. I talked to him about his new book "How We Do It" for the Atlantic's…
One-year Anniversary in Louisville, and First Courier Journal Article!
It's an exciting week. Just a year ago I shipped my boxes out to Kentucky to a little apartment in the Highlands, and now I've got my first piece in…
Conversation with Alysia Abbott, author of “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father”
Abbott talked to me about growing up in San Francisco in the late 1970's, early '80s, with an openly gay father, poet and activist Steve Abbott.
Interview on Afghanistan with Anna Badkhen
Here's my latest Q&A - the first for the Atlantic's Global channel. Anna Badkhen talked to me about the year she spent in a small village in Afghanistan with women…
New Book on The Mary Tyler Moore Show Highlights Women Behind the Scenes
Here's my latest Atlantic SEXES piece on "Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic," by Jennifer…
Maria Konnikova on “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”
Konnikova talks with me for The Rumpus about how we can use Sherlock Holmes as a model for using our mental space efficiently.
Jennifer Finney Boylan on What Becoming a Woman Means
Talked to the very smart and interesting Jennifer Finney Boylan, Colby english professor and author of "Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders" for…
Interview with Gary Greenberg
Just talked to the author of "The Book of Woe: The Making of the DSM-5 and the Unmaking of Psychiatry" for the Atlantic's Health channel. He talks about why we…
First Boston Globe Book Review!
Here's my review of "The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World" by Matt Gross.
Just Up: Interview with André Aciman for the Los Angeles Review of Books
The Finished Copy: An Interview with André Aciman: April 10, 2013