[10] In 1973, Thurman returned to New York after five years in Europe and began to contribute to the newly launched Ms.

After resuming her writing, Thurman's biography, Isak Dinesen: The Life of A Storyteller, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1982.

[17] Thurman took leave to write a biography titled Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1999.

[18] The book was noted as "effective at setting the morally subversive Colette in the social milieu of early-20th-century Paris.

A collection of her essays for the magazine, Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007,[23] and was a New York Times Best Book of the Year.

Other remarkable The New Yorker[24] articles include: Exposure Time (2003),[25] The Roving Eye (2008),[26] First Impressions (2008),[27] Drawn from Life (2012),[28] and The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil (2024).