An Artificial Low
Reviewing Ottessa Moshfegh's 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' (Jonathan Cape, 2018)
Menial Heroics
Reviewing Sayaka Murata's 'Convenience Store Woman' (Granta, 2019)
Reclaiming the Moment
A review of Lavinia Greenlaw's 'The Built Moment' (Faber and Faber, 2019)
The Funny/Not Funny Exercise
A review of David Sedaris' 'Calypso' (Little, Brown, 2018)
Troy Story Revisited
Reviewing Pat Barker’s ‘The Silence of the Girls’ (Penguin, 2018).
Going Wilde in America
“Audiences deserted his lectures, Harvard students mocked his outfits, and his failures left him drunk and dejected."
Reviewing Michele Mendelssohn's 'Making Oscar Wilde'.
The New Bridget Jones?
Reviewing ‘Queenie’ by Candice Carty-Williams (Trapeze, 2019).
An Old War in a New Light
Reviewing ‘Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy’ by Max Hastings (Harper, 2018).
In Search of a Poet
Exploring the history and the hype behind the role of the Oxford Professor of Poetry
‘In Search of Equillibrium’
A review of Theresa Lola’s debut poetry collection (Nine Arches Press, 2019).
The Power of Telling Tales in Ali Smith’s ‘Spring’
'This third instalment in Smith’s quartet is perhaps the best yet; a novel for our times that asks all the right questions of the current climate, but also of itself. '
The ‘happily ever after’ we seek only exists in fiction
Reading stories full of delusions allows us to escape from the modern world
Thinking Through The Flesh
A review of Lidia Yuknavitch's new memoir, The Chronology of Water.
The Consolation of ‘Constellations’
A review of Sinéad Gleeson's new memoir.
