Fathoms

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, Wired, Slate, Outside, and Foreign Policy. Some of his work has been anthologized by the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is currently working on a book about the coevolution of life and Earth.

Ferris Jabr

In the Belly of the Beast: How the Whale Encapsulates Modern Ecology

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, Wired, Slate, Outside, and Foreign Policy. Some of his work has been anthologized by the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is currently working on a book about the coevolution of life and Earth.