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MICHAELA CAVANAGH

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Selected Work

Journalism

  • After Surviving a Wildfire, Who Wants to Live in a Future-Proof Town?, The Atlantic

  • At the World Petroleum Congress, London Review of Books

  • Out at the office, Die Zeit

  • New Tech Can Finally Translate Inuit Language—Sort Of, Vice News

  • The Buried Treasure (and Trash) Underneath Amsterdam's Metro Expansion, CityLab

  • A Library From the Future Arrives In Denmark, CityLab

  • For Transgender People in the Caribbean, Stigma and Discrimination Can Be Lethal, GEN

  • Palm oil industry leaves Indonesian village struggling with loss and regret, DW News, Germany’s international broadcaster

  • Book chapter: “Half the world on mute: The fight against online harassment,” in Unbias The News, published by Hostwriter and Correctiv (Read an excerpt here.) (Buy the book here.)

Essays & Criticism

  • “The Hideaway,” Hazlitt (One of Longform’s weekly top five long-form narratives.)

  • Finding Pleasure in Survival: On C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” LA Review of Books

  • Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative, LitHub

  • It’s Time to Talk About Ecological Grief, Undark

  • Can you call a tow truck to the Arctic Circle? Globe and Mail

  • Letter from Ottawa, Majuscule Literary Magazine