Nausicaa Renner

Senior Politics Editor at The Intercept. (Bylines here.) Contributing at n+1. Formerly digital editor at Columbia Journalism Review.

EMAIL ME: nausicaa[dot]renner[at]gmail

ESSAYS

”The Real Threat Uncovered by Armed Civilians at the Border,” The New York Times Magazine.
”First Comes the ‘Shocking’ News. Then Comes the Navel-Gazing,” The New York Times Magazine.
“How Do You Explain the ‘Obvious’?,” The New York Times Magazine.
on Persona 5, n+1.
”Trolling and Taboo,” n+1.
"Freud Fainting," The Paris Review Daily.
"Journalism in the Age of Hulkamania," JSTOR Daily.

REVIEWS

“How Social Media Shapes Our Identity,” The New Yorker online.
”Russiagate’s banal sprawl,” Bookforum.
”Mamma Mia,” Bookforum.
“Double Jeopardy,” Bookforum.
”Misdiagnosis,” n+1.
"The Gadfly and the Spider," The Nation. 
“Back to Work,”  Public Books.
“Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes,” The New Republic. 
“Why Doing What You Love Is Not Enough,” Democracy Journal. 
“The Philosopher’s Guide to Growing Up,” The New Republic. 
Review of Lisa Roberton’s Nilling, Chicago Review. 
“Crying Wolf: Democracies in Crisis, An Interview with David Runciman,” Boston Review. 
“Some Women Are Dying Younger: Is Welfare Reform to Blame?” Boston Review. 

- More writing for n+1 can be found here. My writing for CJR can be found here.