“Cumulative Knowledge Can Be Quiet”: Lia Purpura in conversation with Sarah Ruth Bates, on Crafting Essay Collections, Essay Daily, online, 2021
Learning to love the theory of “good enough,” New York Times: Solver Stories, online, 2021
The Game ‘Walden’ Shows Us That Some Things Can’t Be Digitized, WIRED, online, 2021
Life and Breath, Aeon, online, 2020 (syndicated by Saturday Evening Post)
“No Color is So Startling as Clear”: An Interview with Amy Leach, Essay Daily, online, 2020
Tucson’s Dancing Man, AZPM, radio + online, 2020
Q&A: The Watchdog Digging Up Big Tech’s Dirt, Boston Globe Ideas, print + online, 2020
How to tell if your non–medical grade "fashion mask" is really working, Salon, online, 2020
20 Years Later, The Shiny Promise Of College That 'Gilmore Girls' Portrayed, WBUR ARTery, online, 2020
On One’s Land, Guernica, online, 2020
Why Importing Drugs From Canada Won't Fix High Drug Costs, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2020
Volunteers wanted for vaccine study, with one catch: You get intentionally exposed to coronavirus, Salon, online, 2020
Call Me By Our Name, Hobart, online, 2020
It Would Have Been Enough, NO CONTACT, online, 2020
ImprovBoston Begins Temporary Shutdown Through 2020, WBUR ARTery, online, 2020
How to Ration Ventilators: There's A System, But It's Still Agonizing, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2020
My First CD: Avril Lavigne, Let Go, Hobart, online, 2020
Comedians Bare It All At ImprovBoston’s Naked Comedy Showcase, WBUR ARTery, online, 2020
Doing Some Dissolving Work: An Interview with Lacy M. Johnson, Sonora Review, online, 2020
Rewriting Our Genes Is Easier Than Ever. That Doesn't Mean We Should Do It, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2020
Captain Courageous, Norwich Record, print and online, 2020
Ongoing, Appalachia Journal, print, 2019
Could He Ascend Farther? An Interview with Alex Honnold, Appalachia Journal, print & online, 2019
To the Host Mother I Tried to Help, Who Helped Me, Off Assignment | Letter to a Stranger, online, 2019
I was unintentionally uninsured, thanks to the Mass. Health Connector, The Boston Globe Magazine | Perspective, print & online, 2019
Alone on a Ledge, Appalachia Journal, print, 2019
Ending the Cycle of Drug Price Hikes, Death And Outrage, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2019
We Can Make It Safer To Inject Drugs. Will We?, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2019
Alone, Late at Night, with Notre Dame, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2019
Yale Must Act to Reveal The True Stories Of Other 'Identical Strangers', WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2019
The Toxin Detective Will See You Now, Norwich Record, print and online, 2018
The Watering Hole, Middlebury Magazine, print and online, 2018
Kanye May Write A Book, But It Won't Be Philosophy, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2018
My Birthright Trip Connected Me To Other Jews — But Not Through Religion, WBUR Cognoscenti, online, 2018
Theory and Practice, The Boston Globe Magazine | Connections, print & online, 2017.