David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York magazine, where he also writes about science and the near future, including his recent cover story on worst-case scenarios for climate change (which was the most read New York magazine story ever); his recurring “Tomorrow” column on the future of science and technology; and his 2015 cover story about the epidemic of honey-bee deaths (the first magazine story to put the blame on neonicitinoid pesticides, which is now accepted science). He joined the magazine as literary editor in 2011, became features director in 2016, and has overseen the magazine’s family of podcasts in addition to his writing and editing.

David has appeared on WNBC’s “News 4 New York,” KCRW’s “To the Point,” WNYC “Brian Lehrer Show,” BBC World Service, and more.

Before joining New York magazine, David was deputy editor at The Paris Review, where he edited and published writers such as Ann Beattie, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Franzen, Janet Malcolm, among others, and interviewed William Gibson as part of the magazine’s “Writers at Work” series. He previously served as The New York Sun’s books editor.

David graduated from Brown University with a degree in History. He is a native New Yorker who lives in Manhattan.