S. C. Cornell

I am a writer in Mexico City at work on a book about a murder trial on the US-Mexico border.

My essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Drift, and LIBER: A Feminist Review.

Email me: sccornell1 at gmail

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Selected Writing

2024

Death In Nogales

The New York Review of Books | On border vigilantes.

Great Personal Risk

The Drift | Pay for pregnancy.

Let Me Tell You What She Means

LIBER | The misreading of Joan Didion.

2023

The Abortion Plot

The New Yorker | Sara Gallardo.

Who Gets to Play in Women’s Leagues?

The New Yorker | Sex and sports.

Our Lady of Anxiety

LIBER | Roz Chast.

How Much Do Words Matter?

The New Yorker | Feminist etymology.

On Androgyny

LIBER | Susan Sontag’s utopia.

2022

To Get It Was The Gift of Life

LIBER | Darryl Pinckney and Elizabeth Hardwick.

Fetal Rites

The Drift | Anti-abortion propaganda.

Sex Tips From Apes

LIBER | Sexual essentialism.

Diary of the Seduced

LIBER | Elif Batuman.

**Baby, Was I Born This Way?**

LIBER | Amia Srinivasan.