Here you can find some stuff I have helped with as Contributing Art Director at The New York Times
On Tech With Shira Ovide
Co-art directing with Elana Schlenker the newsletter On Tech With Shira Ovide from January to September 2022.
Art by Charles Desmarais
MapQuest and Other Internet Zombies
Some online stars from our past just won’t die.
Art by Mathieu Labrecque
The Good News About Food Delivery
Delivery apps are making fresh food available to millions who couldn’t have easily gotten it otherwise.
Art by Stephan Dybus
Hugs to Boring
Don’t underestimate the tech that makes your eyes glaze over. It holds us all up.
Art by Gabriel Gabriel Garble
Why Podcasts Are Becoming Netflix
Podcasts have been a freewheeling corner of digital life, but the potential for profits is changing that.
Art by Julian Glander
A Goodbye to Readers and a Reflection
In Shira Ovide’s last On Tech newsletter, she looks back at how the past two and a half years have shifted her thinking on technology.
Art by John Provencher
Apple’s Zipped Lips
on Chips
Government officials say we need more computer chips made in America and soon. Why isn’t Apple stressed?
Art by Nick Sheeran
What Big Tech’s Riches Mean for Our Future
Five superpower companies — yes, even Facebook after recent news — are completely enmeshed in our world.
Art by Charles Desmarais
Driverless Cars Shouldn’t Be a Race
Sometimes it’s better to be safe
than first.
Art by Gabriel Gabriel Garble
There’s No Global Shopping Mall
Unlike so many of our online experiences, shopping is one area that has remained mostly local.
Art by Amir B Jahanbin
Why Apple’s Fight in the Netherlands Matters
Apple is making a stink over a Dutch regulator’s effort to change its app store. Here’s why the tech giant cares.
Art by Amir B Jahanbin
Internet Drama in Canada. (Really.)
We all need great internet service, but it doesn’t happen by accident.
Art by Mathieu Labrecque
America’s Chinese Tech Ban Didn’t Stick
Lessons from how the U.S. (poorly) handled Chinese phone and internet technology.
Art by Ruru Kuo
America’s Chinese Tech Conundrum
Treating any technology connected to China as a major crisis may itself be a risk to the U.S.
Art by Vince Ibay And Jessica Miller
Online Shopping Is Bananas Confusing
How much we buy online affects the whole economy, but right now there are lots of question marks.
Art by Brendan Conroy
The Old-Timers Are Chasing Netflix
Old-school media companies are challenging the streaming star, which needs new ways to stay on top.
The Morning
The Morning is one of the most popular newsletters in the world, with over 17 million subscribers (no pressure at all!). I feel super lucky to work with the fantastic illustrator María Jesús Contreras each week. Her illustrations for the newsletter were shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2023.
Your Intentions
for the Summer
Take some seasonal inspiration from what readers of The Morning are planning.
Traveling
and Eating Well
When you travel, is tracking down a fantastic meal just as important as seeing the sights? I have tips to help.
Viewing Party
There’s so much to watch over the next few weeks that you might need to make a schedule.
Dressing Up
As the seasons change and more people return to in-person work, figuring out what to wear can be a challenge.
Your Favorite Things
of 2022
This week, your best highly specific best-ofs of the year.
Valentine’s Day
In honor of the holiday, let’s look at the language of love.
Scare Tactics
It’s Halloween season, time for two-pound bags of fun-size candy and scary movies that haunt your dreams.
The Mysteries of Zelda
Countless people find joy, frustration and discovery in video games.
Getting Back on Skis
Returning to activities you’ve given up can be a surprising source of confidence and wonder.
Time Warp
How readers are adjusting to the end of daylight saving time.
What Will Be the Theme of Summer?
As summer commences, so do our pronouncements for what it will be like. In branding, as in all things, moderation is key.
Garden Varieties
Fall is well and truly here. It’s a good time to check in with your houseplants.
Book Review
Book Review is a weekly supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current nonfiction and fiction books are reviewed.
Art by Sophia Deng
Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
Art by Zak Tebbal
Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says.
Chuck Thompson argues that class signifiers have flipped, so that what was once luxurious is now out and what was once lowbrow is now in.
Art by Dadu Shin
‘The Box’ Is a Modernist Puzzle in the Vein of Kafka and Joyce
Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s new novel follows a white paper box on a disorienting journey through many hands — none of which can open it.
Art by Daniel Zender
Love and Empire
“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa.
Art by Ben Denzer
Big Histories for the Big Future
In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come.
Art by Sisi Yu
To Have and to Hold, Even if You Turn Into a Literal Shark
In “The Real Work,” the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself.
Art by Xiao Hua Yang
A Novel Traces the Many Lives of a 19th-Century Romantic
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
Art by Erik Carter
A ‘Mirror World’ Where Leftist Disdain Feeds Right-Wing Paranoia
In her latest book, “Doppelganger,” Naomi Klein investigates an online underworld of conspiracies and misinformation, showing how its rise has inadvertently been fueled by political progressives.
Art by Bryce Wymer
Black Experience, Past and Present, Made Haunting and Surreal
In his new story collection, “Fat Time and Other Stories,” Jeffery Renard Allen distorts reality to explore the lives of Black people.
Art by Félix Decombat
Bret Easton Ellis Is Back to His Regularly Scheduled Programming
In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los Angeles.
Art by Kristina Tzekova
For a Modern Master, the Short Story Is Both Form and Subject
In his new collection, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” David Means derives power from revealing the workings of his craft.
Art by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
In Her Fiction, Ayana Mathis Refuses to Ignore Black History
Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.
Art by Tom Haugomat
In Richard Ford’s New Novel, One More Trip for Old Times’ Sake
“Be Mine” is the fifth book featuring Ford’s keen observer of American life, Frank Bascombe.
Art by Ben Denzer
How Adam Gopnik Learned to Box, Dance, Bake Bread and Drive a Car
In “The Real Work,” the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself.
Art by Tamara Shopsin
A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’
This new collection from Britain’s Daily Telegraph is full of oddballs, mavericks and cranks.
Art by Dror Cohen
Two Divergent Girlhoods in Ghana, United by the Same Debt
In her second novel, “Nightbloom,” Peace Adzo Medie sets a pair of cousins, born on the same day, on separate paths.
Art by Claire Merchlinsky
Otherworldly Horrors Envelop a Scripted Ghost-Hunting Reality TV Show
In Nora Fussner’s new novel, the jaded producers of “Searching For … the Invisible World” are pulled into a haunted story they initially refuse to believe.
Art by Holly Stapleton
Nathan Hill’s ‘Wellness’ Satirizes the Modern Condition — Kind Of
The second novel by the author of “The Nix” follows a young Chicago couple’s trajectory from pre-internet optimism to 21st-century ennui.
