PENELOPE ROWLANDS
A selection articles and essays I've published over the length of my career:
My story on Eugenia Errázuriz, written for the New York Times's "Overlooked No More" series, 10/3/2026
A book just published in France outlines how the government appropriated the apartments of deported Jews during the German Occupation
Air Mail Weekly
March 1, 2025
A deep look into the famously staring Hans Holbein portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More at New York's Frick Collection
The American Scholar
April, 2022
In the midst of the pandemic, an outdated file led me into a precious, near-forgotten world
December, 2020
AirMail Weekly
Feb. 22, 2020
I headed to Chile to research a biography, but found myself in the midst of an uprising instead
December, 2019
The story of Aaron Burr's exile in Europe -- and the extraordinary diary he kept in this period
Summer issue, 2019
Designer Alessandra Branca's
new atelier by the Seine
ElleDecor
April, 2019
The story of quiche
-- and my amazing mother
Eat, Darling, Eat
October, 2017
On the outsized influence of an inherited chair
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
July 17, 2010
On the big impact of a very small ad...
Columbia Journalism Review
January / February, 2007
A visit to the Maine house of
Sister Parish, American designer
Architectural Digest
June, 2006
Novelist, Essayist, Parisian:
A profile of Diane Johnson
June 15, 2003