Non-Fiction/Journalism

As a journalist, Ethan Gilsdorf has written for The New York Times (Travel writer; other sections: Arts); The Boston Globe (Travel writer, Movie critic, Book critic; Bicycling columnist, other sections: Living/Arts, Ideas, Sunday Magazine, Op-ed); The San Francisco Chronicle (Book critic); The Common Review (as their East Coast correspondent); Washington Post (Travel), Christian Science Monitor (Arts/Weekend; also: Backstory) and dozens of other publications in the U.S. and abroad. See below for a full listing.

A sample of the hundreds of articles published by Ethan Gilsdorf: 

>HUMOR/RELATIONSHIPS: Boston Globe Magazine: "Geek Love: Can a gaming and fantasy fanatic find romance outside his realm?"

>TRAVEL ESSAY: New York Times: "When ‘Home for the Holidays’ Involves Two Homes

>TRAVEL: Washington Post: "Boston's Harbor Islands shelter a multitude of surprises"

>POP CULTURE: Christian Science Monitor: "Video game museum gives arcade classics extra lives"

>ESSAY: Plenty: "Pedaling Love: Settling down with the bike of a lifetime doesn't come without its flings" 

>TRAVEL/CULTURE/HISTORY: The Walrus: "Breaking Old Ground: How to construct a castle the medieval way: one hand-carved stone at a time."

>MOVIES/CELEBRITIES: Boston Globe: "As colleagues, they hit on all cylinders: 'You Kill Me' director and stars form a mutual admiration society" (Sir Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni)

>PSYCHOLOGY/POP CULTURE: Psychology Today: “Suburban warrior syndrome: From The Matrix to Harry Potter, heroic fantasy is hot stuff. These modern epics tap into our frustrated impulse to be 21st-century knights—and may even help unleash the workaday hero inside each of us.”

>TRAVEL/MOVIES: Boston Globe: It's otherworldly: Shooting Tolkien’s ‘Rings’ trilogy here was a capital idea for ‘Wellywood’ and its burgeoning film (and fan) industry

>HUMOR/RELATIONSHIPS: Boston Globe Magazine: "Get Over It: A 12-step program to heal even the most pathetic cases of heartbreak."

>TRAVEL: The Reykjavík (Iceland) Grapevine (originally appeared in The Boston Globe): "If You’re Not Smiling, It’s Not Delicious: Cooking and Travelling Thailand"

>MOVIES/CELEBRITIES: Boston Globe: "Not the retiring type: A group of aging iconoclasts still gets a kick out of an indie film like 'Chatham'" (David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern)

>ESSAY: The Literary Traveler: "J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: A Literary Friendship and Rivalry"

>TRAVEL: The Boston Globe: "Spirited & spiritual: On the coast of South India beach-bound tourists mix with Hindu pilgrims"

>TRAVEL: Washington Post: "Mountain Biking in France: Pedal Power" 

>TRAVEL: The New York Times: "Tracking Thoreau Through a Land 'Grim and Wild'"

>POP CULTURE: The Boston Globe Magazine: "Lord of the Ka-Ching" -- Tolkien and Commercialism

>TRAVEL: Boston Globe: "I was a (bad) monk for a week" page 1 / page 2 

>TRAVEL ESSAY: Boston Globe: "Adventures, big or small, make the trip"

>RELATIONSHIPS: Boston Globe: "Just like starting over: After breaking up with a longtime partner, going out is hard to do"

>SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT: Christian Science Monitor: "What is the value of a tree?

>NUTRITION: Christian Science Monitor: "Is it really just a bunch of Fluff?"

>PROFILE: Boston Globe: "She keeps the faith for death penalty opponents" (Sisten Helen Prejean)

>TRAVEL/SCIENCE: New York Times: "Boston, a Science Lovers kind of town"

>PROFILE/ENVIRONMENT: Christian Science Monitor: "The man who saves national park vistas"

Other publishing credits:

U.S. 
>National Geographic Traveler
>Psychology Today
>The Washington Post
>Los Angeles Times >USA Today >Fodor’s travel guides (former Paris hotel correspondent)
>Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington DC)
>Paris Notes (Los Angeles)
>Cleveland Plain Dealer
>St Petersburg (Florida) Times
>Buffalo News
>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
>New York Post
>Poets & Writers (NYC)
>France Magazine (DC)
>Colorado Independent (Colorado Springs)
>New Orleans Times-Picayune
>Weekly Dig (Boston)
>Reno (NV) News and Review
>Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC; Atlanta)
>Port Folio Weekly (Norfolk, VA)
>Memphis Flyer (TN)
>The Literary Traveler (Boston)
>Potash Hill (Vermont)
>Keene Sentinel (NH)
>Brattleboro Reformer (VT)

Canada: >The Walrus (Toronto)
>The Citizen (Ottawa)
>Globe and Mail (Toronto)
>Maisonneuve (Montreal)
>Literary Review of Canada (Toronto)
>Glengarry News (Glengarry, Ontario)
>Planet S (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Europe: >Time Out Paris (Paris/London; 5 years as film, theater and restaurant critic)
>Prague Literary Review (Prague)
>The Sunday Post (Glasgow, Scotland)
>The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
>The Grapevine (Reykjavik, Iceland)
>Go (Airtran inflight magazine, London)

Asia/Oceania/Middle East/Africa: >Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa)
>The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
>Emirates Inflight Magazine (United Arab Emirates)
>One magazine (Indonesia)
>Australian Financial Review (Sydney)
>Featurenet (South Africa) 
>SIRS Knowldege Source (South Africa)
>Chrome (Malaysia)
>Communication Resources (Singapore)