A few of my favorites:
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?, The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 2023
Supported by the Pulitzer Center; selected for 2024's Best American Science and Nature Writing
‘My Gang Is Jesus’: Brazil’s evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade (PDF), Harper's, Feb. 2020
Supported by the Pulitzer Center; featured on Longform
For Art's Sake: The crimes that fueled an extravagant Brazilian museum (PDF), Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2018
Featured on Longform
Songs From Sinjar: How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition, Lapham's Quarterly, Sept. 2017
Excerpts and related pieces from my new book, When We Sold God's Eye:
The Myth of Conflict-Free Diamonds, The New York Times, Feb. 2025
The Travails of Maria the Beauty, LitHub, Jan. 2025
Massacre in the Jungle, The Guardian, Nov. 2024
A few of my stories for The New Yorker:
Why Brazilians Are So Obsessed with the Ryan Lochte Story, Aug. 2016
Brazil's Olympics Meets Its Favelas, Aug. 2016
For The Atlantic:
Shipwrecked in the Amazon, Feb. 2025
Brazil Turns Its Back on Democracy, Oct. 2018
The Broken Promise of the Rio Olympics, Aug. 2016
For The Washington Post:
Ghosts of Brazil’s past haunt presidential impeachment crisis, March 2016
How Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party lost the workers, April 2016
Front-page story
Zika exposes class differences in Brazil, where most victims are poor, Feb. 2016
Front-page story
Brazillionaires book excerpts and related pieces:
Shave the Billionaire: Miraculously, Brazil is jailing its tycoons, The Baffler, May 2017
The Brazillionaire: On Eike Batista, The Times Magazine (UK), July 2016
‘He Steals, but He Gets Things Done,’ Slate, July 2016
Counting to a Billion: How that list of the world's richest people gets made, The Awl, March 2016
The Billionaire Bishop: A pastor gathers followers and dollars, and criminal investigations (PDF), Bloomberg Businessweek, April 2013
Featured on Longform
Book reviews:
Step 1: Move to Peru. Step 2: Join the Marxist Struggle, The New York Times Book Review, March 2020
The Shape of Power: The making and unmaking of Brazilian democracy, The Nation, April 2019
And one old story I still like: