Please click on the links below to find an assortment of Anthony’s essays online.

• “Saudi Arabia hunkers to the north, Yemen to the west. Across the Strait of Hormuz lies the Islamic Republic of Iran.” In 2019, AFAR asked Anthony if he’d be willing to go anywhere in the world on 48-hours notice–no guidebooks, no planning–and write a piece about it. He said he’d do it if he could bring his sons.
• On the 25th anniversary of the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity in the New York Times.
• “Why would I want to eat a Day-Glo miniburger that looks like something the Easter Bunny might serve at a tailgate party for pixies?” Read a short piece by Anthony about macarons in the February 2016 Condé Nast Traveler.
• Anthony’s essay about a family trip to Bora Bora appeared in Condé Nast Traveler’s November 2014 issue.
• Perhaps we are better understood not as “Man” and “Nature” at all, but as aggregates of biological dependencies. Maybe it’s better to think of ourselves as living skyscrapers aswarm with tenants, or as walking coral reefs. From Anthony’s essay about our personal microbiomes, “The New You,” from the January/February 2014 Orion.
• When you’re fourteen, wet, cold, and in the Alaskan wilderness, only one thing can help…
• An essay about narwhal, icebergs, and “luxury” travel in the High Canadian Arctic appears in the November 2013 issue of Condé Nast Traveler.
• Anthony’s essay about internet addiction, “Am I Still Here?” originally appeared in Orion.
• A trip to an Ecuadorian cloud forest for the New York Times.
• “Cloudy Is the Stuff of Stones” from Orion.
• “Let Us Now Praise Libraries, Librarians,” an op-ed in the Sunday Boston Globe.
• The November 2012 issue of Condé Nast Traveler featured a long essay by Anthony about falling mangoes, gigantic waterfalls, green sand beaches, and occasionally turning your back on “Grown-Up Me.”
• On Books, Memory, and the Twelve Bright Stars Scratched Across Page 302.
• Hunting morel mushrooms in the New York Times.
• “Planet Zoo,” a piece about gigantic Frisbees, whale carcasses and huge smacks of jellyfish demolishing salmon farms, as well as the future of global warming, at TMN.