August 7, 2023, The Atlantic. I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
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August 9, 2021 The Atlantic: Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family's search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
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February 9, 2022, The Atlantic. The Older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
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Feb 24, 2021, New York Times column. Pandemic life has made us feel more insecure about the aspects of parenting we were already most insecure about.
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Nov. 24, 2020, New York Times Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn't make his own pain go away. Anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2021.
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