Gideon Lewis-Kraus, a staff writer at The New Yorker, grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Stanford. He writes reportage and criticism and is the author of the digressive travel memoir A Sense of Direction as well as the Kindle Single No Exit. Previously, he was a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor at Harper's magazine, and a contributing writer at WIRED magazine. Gideon co-edited, with Arnie Eisen, Philip Rieff's Sacred Order/Social Order III, and edited Richard Rorty's Philosophy as Cultural Politics. He teaches a reporting seminar in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia. He has lived in San Francisco, Berlin (where he was a 2007–8 Fulbright Fellow), and Shanghai, and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two small children.

Radio/podcast interviews

• the press box

• Chris hayes

• brian lehrer

• the dave chang show

• NPR's Weekend Edition 

• Dinner Party Download

• Longform podcast

• Brooklyn Inst. for Social Research podcast

• Life Stories podcast

• Read Me Something You Love podcast

• LRB podcast w/ Sheila Heti & Christian Lorentzen

Television/conference appearances

• msnbc

• morning joe

• bbc newsnight

• CNN

• hillTV

• MSNBC

• Katie Couric

• Eric Schmidt, onstage at the RSA Conference

Print interviews

• Powell's

• Harper's

• Largehearted Boy playlist

• Interview magazine

• World Hum

• T magazine

• Newsweek/Daily Beast How I Write

• Neojaponisme

• Emaho