Selected Essays, Features & Reviews
‘Support for Gérard Depardieu comes from the France that is obsessed with its image and stuck in the past’. The Guardian. December 2023
An Introduction to Willa Cather’s ‘Lou, the Prophet’. Scratch Classics Blog. July 2023
House Museums: Georgia O’Keeffe. The Financial Times Weekend. June 2023
Female Trouble: The Collected Stories of Cookie Mueller. The Rumpus. May 2023
‘Please Just Let Something Happen’: an interview with Rebecca Watson. Review 31. July 2021
Duo Lingos: The neuroscientific effects of speaking a foreign language. The Times Literary Supplement. April 2021
Kerouac on Robert Frank. The London Magazine. June/July 2020
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life — emerging from Sartre’s shadow. The Financial Times Weekend. December 2019
Little Nothings: Nabokov’s Road Notes. Granta online. September 2019
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth – a family in discord. The Financial Times Weekend. August 2019
Paris Belongs To Us. We’ll Never Have Paris. Ed. Andrew Gallix. Repeater Books. May 2019
Postcards from Peripheral France. The White Review. April 2019
French Resilience: How a US Financier’s Daughter Helped Rebuild War-Torn France. The Financial Times Weekend. November 2018
Behind Jean-Luc Godard’s Shades: Agnès Varda’s Ways of Seeing. The Quietus. July 2018
‘Une liberté d’importuner’. The London Review of Books Blog. January 2018
Worldwide Foster Wallace. The Times Literary Supplement. October 2017
Return of the Naïve Genius: ‘David Lynch: The Art Life"‘ and ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’. The Los Angeles Review of Books. October 2017
‘A Propos de Nice’. The London Review of Books Blog. July 2017