S. C. Cornell
is a writer based in Mexico City. Her first book, the true story of the murder of a migrant in Arizona, is forthcoming from Penguin Press. It has been awarded a Whiting grant and a Robert B. Silvers grant.
Her essays and reporting have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Drift, and LIBER: A Feminist Review.
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Contact her: sccornell1 at gmail
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Selected Writing
2026
Yes, And?
The New Yorker | Consent and its discontents.2025
So You Want To Be a Genius
The New Yorker | A bad idea.Andrea Long Chu Owns the Libs
The New Yorker | A critic’s politics.The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins
The New Yorker | Sex and Christianity.2024
Death In Nogales
NYRB | Border vigilantes.(En español aquí.)
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