Articles
Links to a selection of Elizabeth Stone’s published writing are below, from personal essays to op-eds, from profiles to reportage. Her works have appeared in national magazines, newspapers, literary journals, and in anthologies. Her enduring interests are technology and culture, mental health/mental illness, family stories, politics and the arts.
Sometimes a Revision Really Is a RE-Vision
Cleaver, 2024
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
The New York Times, 2024
Give Me Your Poor: The Story of How Emma Lazarus' Poem Became Eternally Connected to the Statue of Liberty
Our American Stories, 2023
The Woman Who Saved the Statue of Liberty
Smithsonian Magazine, 2023
Finding Internships in Places Where Your Field Is Dominant
US News, 2023
Are You an “Uncle Sam” or a “Lady Liberty”?
Slate, 2022
How College Clubs Can Lead to Careers
US News, 2022
Unreliable COVID Tests Put Both Us and Science at Risk
Newsweek, 2022
My Christmas Tree Ornaments, My Scrapbook
Next Avenue, 2021
My Italian Grandmother, the Enemy Alien: Bringing her Story and Others into My Classroom in an Age of Nativism
Teaching Writing Through the Immigrant Story, 2021
'My Son's Horror Trip to the ER Could Have Been Prevented by a Vaccine'
My Turn: Newsweek, 2021
My Abortion Before Roe v. Wade
The Atlantic, 2020
How to Overcome Classroom Zoom Fatigue
Inside Higher Ed, 2020
Social media, mourning and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The New York Daily News, 2020
I had an illegal abortion before Roe v Wade. So let me give you a reality check
The Independent, 2020
‘School Daze’ A Memoir-Writing Course That Addresses Student Mental Health…. Notes from a First Responder
Association of Writers & Writing Programs, 2019
The “PTSD” Memoir: Shocking Discoveries That Change Everything
Creative NonFiction, Winter 2013
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackguard
You. An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person. Ed. Kim Kupperman et al, February 2013
Social Insecurity
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Husband Emeritus
The Gettysburg Review (Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2012)
Grief in the Age of Facebook
The Chronicle of Higher Education (Anthologized in The Bedford Reader), 2010
The Last Will and Testament in Literature: Rupture, Rivalry, and Sometimes Rapprochement from Middlemarch to Lemony Snicket
Family Process, 2008
The Expanding Safety Net
The New York Times Education, 2008
Transnationalism as a Motif in Family Stories
Family Process, 2005
Liberal Arts: Vocation vs. Vocational
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
Acts of Revelation
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
Examining and Easing the Anxiety of Authorship
The New York Times, 2001
Technology: Helping Webmasters Land in Search Engines’ Nets
The New York Times, 2000
E-Mail on the Screen Replaces Letters to Santa on the Fridge
The New York Times, 1999
Where Everybody Knew My Name
The New York Times Magazine, 1999
Lost in Translation
The New York Times, 1998
Children’s Drug Labels Reconsidered
The New York Times Science, 1995
Film: Dead Moms, Flawed Dads, Perfect Pets, Happy Endings
The New York Times, 1994
Off the Couch
The New York Times, 1992
Theatre: Through the Lens Brightly with Jennifer Tipton
The New York Times Arts & Leisure, 1991
Gifted Children’s Programs: A Matter of Class
The New York Times Magazine, 1990
Interviews with Elizabeth Stone
Abortion Before Roe v. Wade: Elizabeth Stone Tells Her Story
Brut, 2020
