Hi,
I’m Sophie McBain, an award-winning freelance writer based in Boston. I write longform narrative nonfiction, profiles, book reviews and essays for the Guardian, the Times, New Statesman magazine and others.
I love telling true stories about people and big ideas, the ideas that shape our lives and how we see the world. This website showcases some of my recent work.
Latest Work
- BROADCAST: Humans: A Monstrous History – in conversation with Surekha Davies for the Intelligence Squared podcast 2025
- REVIEW: The Woman who Made the Rape Kit (New Statesman) 2025
- INTERVIEW: Author Tony Tulathimutte: ‘The great millennial theme? Resentment’ (The Guardian) 2025
- REVIEW: Lessons from the Afterlife (New Statesman) 2025
- ESSAY: Smartphones don’t suck. People do (New Statesman) 2024
- LONG READ: Look they’re getting skin! Are we right to save the world’s smallest babies (The Guardian) 2024
- INTERVIEW: We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance (The Guardian) 2024