•  The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum (New York Review of Books, 2026) 
  
• All Eyes on Ice (Lux, Issue 16, 2026)
  
• What Happened to the People Trump Dumped in Panama? (New York, 2025) 
• The Campus Deportation Dragnet (Jewish Currents, 2025)     
  
• The Voters Who Helped Mamdani Take New York City (Politico magazine, 2025) 
  
• ‘He Lost Our Votes’: A Dispatch from Dearborn, Michigan (Politico magazine, 2023)
• The Sick Little Afghan Girl Would Be Safe in the US. Then Her Family Was Denied Entry (Politico magazine, 2023)
• No Children Here (The Baffler, 2023) 
  
• The ICE-to-Haitian Prison Pipeline  (The Nation, 2022) 
• Othered Paris (CityLab, 2018)

• When Modernism Thrived in South Asia (Cultural critique; CityLab, 2022)  
  
• ‘I Became a Jailer’: The Origins of Immigrant Detention (Illustrated explainer; CityLab, 2021)
• When Welfare Decisions are Left to Algorithms (Q&A, the Atlantic, 2018)
• I Survived DC’s First ‘Sweat Crawl’ (CityLab, 2018)
  
• The Violence of the Clock in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Monologue at 3 a.m.’ (Literary critique; the Atlantic, 2017)
• The Disorientation of Migration in Bhanu Kapil’s ‘Schizophrene’ (Literary critique, the Atlantic, 2015) 
  
• I am Not India’s Daughter (Film critique; the Atlantic, 2015)
  
• How Some Black Americans Wore Turbans to Go Incognito During Jim Crow (Short history; NPR, 2014) 

• ICE Deleted Death in Custody Reports that Cited Shoddy Medical Care (The Intercept, 2026) 
  
• They Won in US Court. ICE is Still Detaining and Trying to Deport Them. (Mother Jones, 2025) 
  
• ‘Essentially Cages’: ICE is Using Courthouse Cells for Longterm Detention  (The Nation and Type Investigations, 2025)
  
• ‘He’s Just a Kid’: The Maryland Teenager Almost Sent to El Salvador (The Guardian, 2025) 
  
• The Fatal Flaw in Border Patrol’s Rescue Operations  (High Country News and Type Investigations, 2024)   
• ICE Dumped Migrant Mothers and their US Citizen Newborns in Mexico (The Guardian, 2021)
  
• DOJ Tweaked Hiring to Install Restrictive Immigration Judges (Roll Call, 2019)
  
• Mapping the 100-Mile ‘Border Zone’ (CityLab, 2018)

• Sanctuary City in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City (New York Review of Books, 2026) 
• The Death of Asylum (Jewish Currents, 2025) 
• Force multiplier (The Baffler, 2025)
• Caste, immigration, and Kamala Harris (Harper’s Bazaar, 2024)   
• Sex and the Citizenship Process (Lux, 2022) 
  
• An Anatomy of Diversity Plaza (Urban Omnibus, 2022) 
• Broader Crisis (The Baffler, 2021)
  
• The Great (South Asian) American Roadtrip (CityLab, 2017)

teaching & speaking: 

• Tanvi is an adjunct professor of journalism at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Craig Newmark School of Journalism. Tanvi teaches a fundamental writing and reporting course every fall. She was awarded the 2026 Faculty Appreciation Award. 

• She has been trained by the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking to teach hands-on, collaborative writing workshops for journalism students. She typically leads 1-2 weeklong writing-to-think intensives every year.  

• Tanvi has spoken at Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Maine, and Northwestern University.

• She is a regular panelist and moderator at journalism, writing, and academic forums such as those hosted by the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) conferences, the New City Critics, the City Museum of New York, the Smithsonian, and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

• She often appears on radio shows and podcasts such as Slate’s The Waves, NPR’s Code Switch, In The Thick, The New Stateman’s World Review, and KCRW’s To The Point.