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Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz , a staff writer at The New Yorker covering books, science, and culture, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She is the author of “ Lost & Found .”

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6 picks · 2015–2024

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What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet
a reporter at large ·

Kathryn Schulz reports on severe solar storms, which may have the potential to upend many technologies essential to our daily lives, from G.P.S. and the power grid to communications satellites and FEMA emergency-response systems.

The Many Lives of Pauli Murray
books ·

She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her?

Citizen Khan
american chronicles ·

Kathryn Schulz on a Mexican-food entrepreneur from South Asia, and a recent upswing of Islamophobia.

The Really Big One
annals of seismology ·

Kathryn Schulz writes about the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia fault line, and the region’s inadequate disaster-preparedness plans.