Essays

Every Book Is A Cadaver: On Palden Lhamo, Tantric Art, And The Creative Necessity Of Destruction — An essay on some of the inspiration and background to Come Join Our Disease, for The Social.

“We Will Have To Choose Our Apocalypse” — An essay on post-pandemic freedom, and its limits, for The Guardian

A piece about Brexit Britain, nostalgia, and patriotism I wrote for the New York Times.

An essay about Michael Jackson, illness, and the clinical gaze. I also discussed this essay, and Jackson generally, on the TLS Podcast, which you can listen to here.

The End of the End of Everything - A long essay I wrote about fiction and technology, available in four parts here or as an ebook download here

Punched Through The Digital Wall: A Playlist of Music That Inspired Perfidious Albion

Reviews

Yoga, by Emmanuel Carrere

Elizabeth Finch, by Julian Barnes

Harrow, by Joy Williams

The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Second Place, by Rachel Cusk

Lightning Rods, by Helen DeWitt

Bark, by Lorrie Moore

The Bricks That Built The Houses, by Kate Tempest

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders

The First Bad Man, by Miranda July

Taipei, by Tao Lin

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi

A Natural, by Ross Raisin

Murmur, by Will Eaves

The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner

The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy

Frankissstein, by Jeanette Winterson