Lora Kelley
I am a writer in Brooklyn. I was previously on staff at The Atlantic and The New York Times, where I wrote about technology, economics, books, and American life. My criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Drift, and other publications. I started my journalism career as a researcher for Times Opinion's series Privacy Project, and I covered the collapse of FTX and trial of Sam Bankman-Fried for the Times and The Atlantic. I am a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence, and I write the Shop Talk column on the language of business for the New York Times.
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Essays and criticism
- The Matter of Martin The Paris Review
- On Helen Garner’s The Season The Paris Review
- A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey The New Yorker
- A Necessary Credential The Drift
- An Awkward Truth About American Work The Atlantic
- ‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’ The New York Review of Books
- What Does Workplace TikTok Look Like During Layoffs? It Gets Weird. The New York Times Magazine
- What Was the Wiretap? The Nation
- Why Does Every Tech Company Want to “Democratize” Something? Mother Jones
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Selected Reporting
- The Parents in the Middle of FTX’s Collapse The New York Times
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s Losing Game The Atlantic
- The Man Who Would Save Fro-Yo The New York Times
- How LinkedIn Became a Place to Overshare The New York Times
- Want to Escape the Financial News? Don’t Try a Hobby. The New York Times
- How America Lost Its Taste for the Middle The Atlantic
- Welcome to Dunkin' World GQ