I'm a freelance writer based in New York.

Recent work

Essay on Balzac — Souvenir

Essay on Carl Jung — Asterisk

Review of Maintenance Art, by Grant Maierhofer — Republic of Letters

Essay on Richard Sharpe Shaver — LA Review of Books

Review of Is a River Alive?, by Robert MacFarlane — Cleveland Review of Books

Essay on On the Clock, by Claire Baglin, and French class memoirs — Public Books

Review of Blind Corners, by Michael Collins — Literary Review

Review of Time of Silence, by Luis Martín-Santos — Southern Review of Books

Review of Into the Sun, by C.F. Ramuz — Chicago Review of Books

Review of Perfection, by Vincenzo Latronico — LA Review of Books

“The US Government Is Spending Billions on Wildfire Policy That Doesn't Work” — Slate

“A Right-Wing Back-to-the-Land Movement Is Making Germans Nervous” — Vice

“A German Jew Vows to Fight on to Remove Anti-Semitic Sculpture After Court Defeat” — NPR

“Standing Rock and the 'Deep North'“— Aljazeera

“It Takes an Army of Trucks from Around the Country to Haul Away the Damage from Louisiana's floods” — PRI

“They Saw Refugees Sleeping in Tents. So They Made Them a Home.” — Upworthy

“The Psych Ward for People Who Broke Into the White House” — The Atlantic

“Our Science-Fiction Apocalypse” — Salon

“Cold Cash on a Hard Planet” — Guernica

“A Black-and-White Aleph” — The Millions

“Food Fluffers” — Narratively

“A Forest Expert Team In Spain Fights Fire With Fire — Literally” — NPR

“Raise and Support at Standing Rock” — Slate

“Migrant men in Greece are Selling Sex to Survive” — The Week

“Warehouse of Souls: Inside the last days of the Idomeni refugee camp” — Guernica

“The End-of-the-World Diet” — Salon

“Postcard from Tar-Sands Country” — Guernica 

“Counter-Jihad Takes to the ‘Information Battle-space’” — Guernica

“Just the Facts” — Tin House

I also write on Substack.

Contact: aaron.labaree@gmail.com