Matthew Power: Harper’s Magazine

Slipping Through the Net: Cambodia’s Border War Against Drug-resistant Malaria (.pdf)

April 2012

Ghosts of Wounded Knee (.pdf)

Portfolio with photographs by Aaron Huey

December 2009  

Mississippi Drift: River vagrants in the age of Wal-Mart (.pdf)

March 2008                                                     * included in Best American Travel Writing 2009

                                                                                            and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

The Magic Mountain: Trickle-Down Economics in a Philippine Garbage Dump (.pdf)

December 2006                                             *nominated for a Livingston Award

                                                                                                      *included in Best American Travel Writing 2007

Immersion Journalism: Panning for Ratings Gold in New Orleans (.pdf)

December 2005

The Lost Buddhas of Bamiyan: Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan (.pdf)

March 2005                                                   *nominated for a Livingston Award

                                                                                                      *included in Best American Spiritual Writing 2006

The Trash Folder: As waste, our computers are not easily erased (.pdf)

January 2005

The Poison Stream: Sacrificing India’s poor on the altar of modernity (.pdf)

August 2004                                                 *nominated for a Livingston Award

                                                                    * “Other Notable Science and Nature Writing”

                                                                                                                          Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005