SOPHIA STEWART

Selected Essays & Reviews

On stuttering and the sculptures of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (NYT Magazine, 2025)
On disability memoirs (The Atlantic, 2025)
On the limits of the life of the mind (The Atlantic, 2025)
On the life and work of poet Julia de Burgos (LA Review of Books Vol. 44)
On love, work, and Robert Caro (Cleveland Review of Books Vol. 1)
On the history of relationship advice columns (The Atlantic, 2025)
On (not) having children (Cleveland Review of Books, 2025)
On the “meaning” of disability (LA Review of Books, 2025)
On the monstrousness of the art world (The Atlantic, 2024)
On artist-motherhood (Hyperallergic, 2024)
On the photography of Tamiko Nashimura (ArtReview, 2024)
On celebrity group chats (LA Review of Books, 2024)
On crossword puzzles (The Atlantic, 2024)
On Andrew Lloyd Webber (Still Alive, 2023)
On the science of love (The Atlantic, 2023)
On philosophy’s forgotten women (The Atlantic, 2023)
On the good art of bad men (The Millions, 2023)
On speech disability (The Baffler, 2022)
On Peter Brooks’s Seduced by Story (The Atlantic, 2022)
On Bo Burnham’s Inside (LA Review of Books, 2023)
On Brenda Lozano’s Witches (Astra, 2022)
On Lillian Fishman’s Acts of Service (Cleveland Review of Books, 2023)
On Claim to Fame (Dirt, 2022)
On Joan Didion’s memorial (The Millions, 2022)
On blue drinks (Bon Appétit, 2021)
On Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (The Believer, 2021)
On Brenda Lozano’s Loop (Full Stop, 2021)
On Joan Didion and being serious (LA Review of Books, 2021)

Selected Profiles, Interviews, & Reportage

How Women Keep Reinventing Independent Publishing (Publishers Weekly, 2025)
Anglophone Publishers Bet on Spanish-Language Editions (Publishers Weekly, 2024)
How the National Braille Press Brings Books to Blind Readers (Publishers Weekly, 2023)
John Hendrickson Tells the Truth (The Millions, 2023)
Yahdon Israel Pulls Back the Curtain on Publishing (Publishers Weekly, 2023)
Tiya Miles Rides with the Trailblazers (Publishers Weekly, 2023)
Beth Nguyen Explores Her Family Ties (Publishers Weekly, 2023)
How Publishers Make Old Books New Again (Publishers Weekly, 2022)
Book Publicity in the Digital Age (Publishers Weekly, 2022)
What Might a New, 21,000-square-foot Art Space Bring to Brooklyn? (Hyperallergic, 2021)
How TikTok Makes Backlist Books into Bestsellers (Publishers Weekly, 2021)
Translators Fight for Credit on Their Own Book Covers (Publishers Weekly, 2021)
Talking with Amina Cain (The Millions, 2023)
Talking with Melissa Febos (The Millions, 2022)
Talking with Connie Palmen (Asymptote, 2021)
Talking with Yun Ko-Eun (Asymptote, 2021)