Finding Hidden Happiness in Nature’s Variety, ORION, OCT 22, 2025

To Understand America, Look to the Everyday Apple, THE WALRUS, Sept 27, 2025

Seeds of Industrialisation: How the Soul of the Apple got Lost: LAND AND CLIMATE REVIEW, Sept 26, 2025

Nature Is ‘Not for Sale,’ THE REVELATOR, July 08, 2025

The Songs of Ancient Trees, SIERRA MAGAZINE, Jan 22, 2025

In Search of the Continent’s Largest Shorebird, HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, July 01, 2024/ Longreads Editors’ Pick

The Shield That Protects Us: Monarch Butterflies, Biodiversity, and the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS, May 12, 2023

What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds, RUMPUS, Jan 27, 2023

Silencing the Technology Beast, LITERARY HUB, Dec 16, 2022

A Flicker of Light, TERRAIN, Dec 05, 2022

A Zen Monk at Work, OPRAH DAILY, Nov 21, 2022

Messengers From the Past, ORION, Nov 2022/ Longread Editors’ Pick

The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept 16, 2020

In ‘The Bird King,’ the Spanish inquisition sets a fantastical plot in motion, THE WASHINGTON POST, Mar 11, 2019 

In Search of Strong Women, Los Angeles Review of Books, Dec 18, 2017

An elephant who texted for help and other tales of animals on the move, The Washington Post, Sept 22, 2017

A look at Syria: The everyday beauty and the everyday fears, The Washington Post, Apr 14, 2017

What King Learned from Gandhi, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan 16, 2017

A Painful Truth, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nov 12, 2016

How Native Americans battled a brutal land grab by an expanding America, The Washington Post, Nov 04, 2016

Bad Hombres, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nov 03, 2016

Turn Left or Get Shot, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sept 24, 2016

Chain of covenants — “Nation to Nation: Treaties between the U.S. and American Indian Nations,” Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican), Aug 19, 2016

Are We Done Punishing Black Men? Los Angeles Review of Books, April 24, 2016

Building the world (with the government’s help): Sally Denton on the Bechtel Corporation, Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican), February 26, 2016

Chasing Particles Is Fun, Priyanka Kumar on A Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman’s Journey in Physics, Los Angeles Review of Books, January 15, 2016

Who’s That Man? Priyanka Kumar on Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 19, 2015

The story of Sky City: Edward Hunt and the Acoma origin myth, Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican), September 18, 2015

Dreaming Where I Walk, High Country News, August 17, 2015

Rising from the Ashes: The films of Satyajit Ray, Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican), May 29, 2015.

Murder, They Wrote, Priyanka Kumar on Ghettoside by Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Review of Books. April 20, 2015

Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano, Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican). March 27, 2015

Late Start, Spectacular Finish: The Life of Penelope Fitzgerald, Los Angeles Review of Books. January 21, 2015

All the Broken People, Priyanka Kumar on Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 23, 2014

The Art of Cultivating Friends, Priyanka Kumar on The Good Spy by Kai Bird, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 25, 2014

Life, Prison, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Priyanka Kumar on On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 22, 2014

Here, Love Is Never Free: Priyanka Kumar on Cristina Henríquez’s “Book of Unknown Americans,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 26, 2014

Reading “Anna Karenina” in Beirut, Priyanka Kumar on An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 26, 2014

The Novelist as Performer: What Authors Can Learn from Charles Dickens, The Huffington Post, December 13, 2013

Should You Write a Novel or a Screenplay? The Huffington Post, November 18, 2013