“A Midsummer Day’s Dream,” an essay on cricket for Wisden India 2014 Almanack: February 2014;
“The Winds of Changelessness”—an essay on the 3rd anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake—World Post, March 10, 2014;
“Night and Day”—an essay on the collective subconscious in a geopolitical context—World Post, March 17, 2014;
“The Folly of Thinking We Know”—New York Times Op-Ed on Malaysian Airlines 370, March 21, 2014;
“City Light Books has the true beat of San Francisco”–Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2014;
“Inspired by Clash of Ideas,” an essay on writing about medieval Iran while holed up in Manila’s red-light district—Los Angeles Times, April 13;
“The Miraculous Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,” an obituary—Time.com, April 17;
“Takashi Murakami’s Smiley Faces on a Mushroom Cloud”—World Post, May 5, 2014
“When Words Become Art”–an essay on Douglas Coupland’s Word Art, Vancouver Art Gallery catalogue. June 2014.