Ischia — in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante (FT Weekend)
Three cheers for the pub (FT Weekend)
Lunch with Francis Spufford (FT Weekend)
Baumgartner by Paul Auster, reviewed for FT Weekend
‘I can leave a show or book unmoved, but with football I always feel’ (The Observer)
Miriam Toews on her bestseller Women Talking becoming an Oscar contender (FT Weekend)
Hanif Kureishi, a writer undaunted (Financial Times)
Lunch with George Saunders (FT Weekend)
An interview with artists Jane and Louise Wilson (FT Weekend)
Fantasy dinner party: a boozy affair at Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead (FT Magazine)
On being mistaken for little scratch’s protagonist (The i paper)
The particular power of female alliances (FT Magazine)
An interview with Maggie Nelson (FT Magazine)
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett, reviewed for FT Weekend
What selling my debut novel taught me about office hierarchies (British Vogue)
‘The trick to writing is to pretend there are no tricks’ (Esquire)
‘I was possessed, for a year, by a woman whose name I do not know’ (Granta Magazine)
Alone together: friendship in a pandemic (FT Weekend)
An interview with Hilary Mantel (FT Magazine)
Is it possible to convey present tense experience? (The London Magazine)
An interview with Mary Gaitskill (FT Weekend)
I made fun of office life — and then it disappeared (FT Weekend)
The internet has split our sense of self. Can the page reproduce that? (Lit Hub)
Fantasy home: a modernist masterpiece designed by James Melvin (FT Weekend)
An interview with the stars of A Suitable Boy (Vogue)
The True History of the Kelly Gang, reviewed for FT Weekend
What it’s like to have a life crisis at any age (ELLE)
My weekend at a writer’s retreat (FT Weekend)
Little Women, reviewed for FT Weekend
If you’re looking for distraction, Twin Peaks is a damn fine choice (FT Weekend)
How social media has transformed book design (FT Weekend)
The agony and ecstasy of smashing your smartphone (FT Magazine)
The Souvenir, reviewed for FT Weekend
On Normal People by Sally Rooney (Review 31)
Only one after: the prolonged impacts of sexual assault (The TLS)
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell, reviewed for the FT Weekend
This decade we’ve become obsessed with ourselves (Guardian)
Permission by Saskia Vogel, reviewed for The TLS
How authors are incorporating social media into fiction (FT Weekend)
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy, reviewed for FT Weekend
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, reviewed for The TLS
Summer books (Lot by Bryan Washington and Witch by Rebecca Tamás) for The TLS
Broadway Market: a back garden for generation rent (FT Magazine)
An interview with Olivia Sudjic (FT Weekend)
The Plotters by Un-su Kim, reviewed for The TLS
Growing up in the Bauhaus: interviews with the inheritors for FT Weekend
Two Lucia Berlin books, reviewed for The London Magazine
The apps helping renters avoid houseshares from hell (FT Weekend)
Losing themselves: Joyce Carol Oates’s unstable narratives and damaged protagonists (The TLS)
Best Book of 2012: Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Granta)
Exposure by Olivia Sudjic, reviewed for Review 31
What home means to me (Financial Times)
Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish, reviewed for The White Review
On Gabriele D’Annunzio, the man who prototyped fascism (Granta)
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey, reviewed for the Literary Review
Motherhood by Sheila Heti, reviewed for The Spectator
The Story of a Marriage by Geir Gulliksen, reviewed for The TLS
The Unmapped Mind by Christian Donlan, reviewed for FT Weekend
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal, reviewed for the Literary Review
Dementia and us: portraits of heartbreak and hope (Financial Times)
Incest by Christine Angot, reviewed for The TLS
On Brian Dillon’s Essayism for The London Magazine
Form and Resistance: reporting on an Eimear McBride event (The TLS)
A climax could be perfunctory: Future Sex by Emily Witt (Review 31)
