“Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category,” The Washington Post, June 29, 2023.

“Pharmacology,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 27, 2022.

“Our Strange Addiction,” Lapham’s Quarterly, March 15, 2021.

“‘Theire Soe Admirable Herbe’: How the English Found Cannabis,” Public Domain Review, February 19, 2020.

“Astral Travels with Jack London,” The Public Domain Review, 2016.

“Palm Trees and Potions: on Portuguese Pharmacy Signs,” The Recipes Project, 2016.

“Into the Mystic,” Aeon, 2015.

“Lessons from Rare Book School,” The Paris Review Daily

“Animals in the Archive,” JSTOR Daily

“The Literature of Laughing Gas,” The Paris Review Daily

“Newton’s Needle,” The Pacific Standard

“The King of the Islands of Refreshment,” for The Appendix

“Wizards of the Coast,” The Paris Review Daily

“Yesterday’s Drugs are Tomorrow’s Medicines,” for Aeon

“Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia,” The Public Domain Review

“A Pirate Surgeon in Panama,” The Appendix

“Meerkats without History: Digging for a Nonhuman Past in the Kalahari,” The Appendix

“The Premodern History of Outer Space,” The Atlantic

“Made in Taiwan?” for The Appendix

“An Eighteenth-Century Book of Magic,” Slate

“How Three Illegal Drugs Came to Be,” The Atlantic

“Painting the New World,” for The Public Domain Review