Literary Reportage

Cheyenne McNeil (Literary Reportage, 2025)

‘What is my faith? What am I doing?’ The American evangelicals ‘deconstructing’ their religion to save it When a young Southern Baptist came out as gay, it prompted a ‘major reckoning’: could he reconcile his religion with his sexuality?

Inge Oosterhoff (Literary Reportage graduate)

The Pluralities of Scale | Broadcast Even microchips have a history that's human.

Will Hunt (Literary Reportage, 2013) is a 2025 New American fellow!

Will Hunt Will Hunt is a nonfiction writer. He is the author of Underground (Random House, 2019), an investigation of humanity’s ancient and intimate connection to subterranean spaces. His writing on landscape, memory, cultural heritage, and our relationship to the deep past has appeared in the New Yorker, ...

Come join us tomorrow night (September 23, 6-8, 20 Cooper Square)

SEPTEMBER 19 (THURSDAY, 6-8 pm) - Suketu Mehta will talk with Rollo Romig about Rollo's new book, "I Am on the Hit List," his investigation into the 2017 assasination of journalist Gauri Lankesh.
Those without an NYU ID rsvp in advance.

Natalie Albaran (Literary Reportage, 2025)

How a 'feminist s***m bank' was born in California From the Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center spawned the S***m Bank of California, the United States' first and only nonprofit s***m bank.

Cheyenne McNeill (Literary Reportage, 2025)

Inside the Movement to Make Divorce Almost Impossible for Young Women Months after my wedding, I wanted out. But an archaic law said I had to stay married.

Come join us on September 23 for a discussion between Lauren Sandler and Lit Rep alum Natalie Lampert about Natalie's new book, "The Big Freeze."

The event is free and open to the public (non-NYU visitors MUST rsvp in advance in order to get into the building)

Pooja Salhotra (Literary Reportage, 2022)

When Texas jail standards push inmates to lockups in other states, oversight doesn’t follow Jaleen Anderson’s mom is on a quest for details about her son’s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial.

Pooja Salhotra (Literary Reportage, 2022)

Texas’ overcrowded and understaffed jails send people awaiting trial to other counties and states Limits on who can be released without paying bail and difficulties hiring guards worsen the situation.

Darshana Narayanan (Literary Reportage, 2023)

How fetuses learn to ‘talk’ while they’re still in the womb | Aeon Essays When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb?

Shaan Merchant (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Delighting in the Lavender Fields of Central Spain By welcoming visitors with glorious scents and a natural beauty that rivals Provence in France, the annual lavender harvest has revitalized the medieval town of Brihuega.

Garrett Owen (Literary Reportage, 2025)

Overnight at Diner24, NYC’s newest 24-hour restaurant and bar We hung out at the new Manhattan diner from 11pm to 7am. Here’s what it was like.

Inge Oosterhoff (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Evetta Petty Is Bringing Harlem to the Royals Meet the first Black milliner to join the Royal Ascot Millinery Collective.

Laura Jedeed (Literary Reportage, 2023)

Inside the Rise and Fall of Project Veritas James O’Keefe helped transform U.S. conservatism into a war machine with his undercover videos — then it all imploded

Last Thursday was graduation at the Beacon Theater, and the 2024 Literary Reportage reading. Everybody did well, and it was great to meet so many parents, friends, and loved ones.

James Shapiro spoke at the New York Institute for the Humanities in 2014 about Shakespeare in America, the anthology he edited for the Library of America. He is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Liza Featherstone (Literary Reportage Faculty) https://newrepublic.com/article/181539/artificial-turf-pfas-children-playing-fields-rye?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR09FbCOoY8gFLHf8uwRVo8mnVssTbRUJG7phOUWqjWhCXkpEg0TqKxjVBE_aem_AdUX7U0iKD3VHqB1YJyaDaw4-TarN15WrkqB-t9J3fCd-CIu6mBGDB1fr111RDivuYjYvQ9JVTMC0btTgFWgJpgx

Artificial Turf Is Tearing Towns Apart The PFAS in playing fields—and the open question of what they might do to kids—is turning into a culture war.

May 7, 6-8
Free and open to the public

The Shooter at Midnight - NYU Journalism The Shooter at Midnight Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided: a conversation with Sean Cooper. Sponsored by Literary Reportage

Rayan El-Amine (Literary Reportage, 2026)

Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World Talking with the translators of Wissam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book whose genesis is as extraordinary as its contents.

Join Lit Rep alum Sean Cooper and Matthew Wolfe for a discussion of Sean's new book on May 7 (6-8) at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square). Non-NYU visitors attendees must register in advance.

Meagan Saliashvili (Literary Reportage, 2024)

Inspired by the Confederacy and Czarist Russia, "Ortho Bros" Are on the Rise A Houston-area priest is part of a group of religious leaders who draw followers interested in conspiracy theories and authoritarian government.

Ted Conover (Literary Reportage Faculty)

“Please I Will Give Anything for You to Come Back” Why did a mother with no backcountry experience take her sister and 13-year-old son to live off the grid on a 10,000-foot mountain during a Colorado winter?