Among the scientists Gleick profiled in the "New York Times Magazine" were Douglas Hofstadter, Stephen Jay Gould, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Benoit Mandelbrot. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. He wrote the "Fast Forward" column in the "New York Times Magazine" from 1995 to 1999, and his essays charting the growth of the Internet formed the basis of his book "What Just Happened". His work has also appeared in "The New Yorker", "the Atlantic", "Slate", and the "Washington Post", and he is a regular contributor to "The New York Review of Books".