On UFOs (London Review of Books, 26/12/2024)
Review of The Material by Camille Bordas (London Review of Books, 12/9/2024)
On J. G. Ballard (London Review of Books, 23/5/2024)
On Upton Sinclair (London Review of Books, 4/1/2024)
Review of The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (Times Literary Supplement, 15/9/2023)
Review of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Times Literary Supplement, 20/1/2023)
Review of Lessons by Ian McEwan (Times Literary Supplement, 9/9/2022)
Review of Homesickness by Colin Barrett (London Review of Books, 4/8/2022)
The insect crisis (London Review of Books, 12/5/2022)
Review of The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (Times Literary Supplement, 29/4/2022)
Review of The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy (Times Literary Supplement, 22/10/2021)
Review of Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (Times Literary Supplement, 1/10/2021)
Tennis with Maggi Hambling (1843 Magazine, 16/8/2021)
Review of Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor (London Review of Books, 17/6/2021)
Review of The Letters of Thom Gunn (Spectator, 1/5/2021)
Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (London Review of Books, 22/4/2021)
Review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Times Literary Supplement, 5/3/2021)
Review of Inside Story: How to write by Martin Amis (Times Literary Supplement, 11/9/2020)
Review of Party Going by Henry Green (Slightly Foxed, 1/9/2020)
Review of Cleanness by Garth Greenwell (London Review of Books, 16/4/2020)
Review of The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel (Times Literary Supplement, 6/3/2020)
Review of A Warning by Anonymous and Triggered by Donald Trump Jr. (Times Literary Supplement, 14/2/2020)
Review of Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel and The Trouble with Men by David Shields (Times Literary Supplement, 27/9/2019)
Review of A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane (Times Literary Supplement, 30/7/2019)
Review of Melmoth by Sarah Perry (London Review of Books, 3/1/2019)
The life of Robert Graves (Guardian, 1/9/2018)
Review of A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma (Spectator, 12/5/2018)
Review of Mothers by Chris Power (Sunday Times, 25/3/2018)
Review of Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (Sunday Times, 18/2/2018)
Review of Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith (Sunday Times, 4/2/2018)
The life and work of Leonora Carrington (London Review of Books, 2/11/2017)
Review of Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Sunday Times, 3/9/2017)
Review of two novellas by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Times Literary Supplement, 18/7/2017)
Review of Modern Gods by Nick Laird (Sunday Times, 9/7/2017)
Review of Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins (Sunday Times, 12/2/2017)
Review of The Blot by Jonathan Lethem (Times Literary Supplement, 25/1/2017)
The life of Franz Kafka (Sunday Times, 20/11/2016)
The life of Angela Carter (Guardian, 1/10/2016)
Review of His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Sunday Times, 11/9/2016)
Review of Night of Fire by Colin Thubron (Sunday Times, 7/8/2016)
Review of The Cauliflower® by Nicola Barker (Sunday Times, 17/4/2016)
Review of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (Sunday Times, 27/3/2016)
The life of a tennis superfan (Spectator, 13/6/2015)
Review of The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson (Sunday Times, 1/2/2015)
Review of Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel (Times Literary Supplement, 17/12/2014)
Review of Bolano: A Biography in Conversations by Monica Maristain (Sunday Times, 2/11/2014)
Review of The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Sunday Times, 19/9/2014)
Review of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Sunday Times, 24/8/2014)
Review of Barbarians by Tim Glencross and In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman (Times Literary Supplement, 2/7/2014)
The strange dreams of Hans Christian Andersen (Sunday Times, 27/4/2014)
Review of Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis (Sunday Times, 13/4/2014)
Review of Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut (Sunday Times, 2/3/2014)
The life of William S. Burroughs (Sunday Times, 9/2/2014)
Travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Independent, 25/1/2014)
Review of Andrew’s Brain by E. L. Doctorow (Times Literary Supplement, 24/1/2014)
Review of Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates (Sunday Times, 12/1/2014)
Review of The Circle by Dave Eggers (Sunday Times, 13/10/2013)
Review of Transatlantic by Colum McCann (London Review of Books, 12/9/2013)
Review of The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Sunday Times, 8/9/2013)
Review of The Guts by Roddy Doyle (Sunday Times, 4/8/2013)
Review of Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm (Sunday Times, 14/7/2013)
Review of The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (Times Literary Supplement, 22/3/2013)
Review of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid (Daily Telegraph, 22/3/2013)
Review of A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (Sunday Times, 27/1/2013)
Review of Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway (London Review of Books, 6/12/2012)
‘He protests too much’: Somerset Maugham’s nonfiction (Times Literary Supplement, 19/11/2012)
Review of May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes (Times Literary Supplement, 2/11/2012)
Review of Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson (Sunday Times, 14/10/2012)
Review of Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson (Observer, 30/9/2012)
Review of Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon (Sunday Times, 16/9/2012)
Review of Kimberley’s Capital Punishment by Richard Milward (Sunday Times, 26/8/2012)
Review of The Yips by Nicola Barker (Sunday Times, 8/7/2012)
Review of Skios by Michael Frayn (Times Literary Supplement, 6/7/2012)
Review of The Deadman’s Pedal by Alan Warner (Sunday Times, 17/6/2012)
Review of The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild (New Statesman, 13/5/2012)
Review of Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher (Literary Review, April 2012)
Review of Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks (Sunday Times, 25/3/2012)
The correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell (Times Literary Supplement, 9/3/2012)
Review of Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd (London Review of Books, 8/3/2012)
Review of More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada by Jenny Williams and A Small Circus by Hans Fallada (Sunday Times, 29/1/2012)
Review of Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White (Sunday Times, 1/1/2012)
Comedians’ memoirs (Guardian, 23/11/2011)
Review of The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Times Literary Supplement, 12/10/2011)
Review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-1956 (Sunday Times, 9/10/2011)
Review of Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Sunday Times, 25/9/2011)
Review of Lazarus is Dead by Richard Beard (Sunday Times, 11/9/2011)
Review of Burning Bright by Ron Rash (Sunday Times, 28/8/2011)
Review of The Blue Book by A. L. Kennedy (Sunday Times, 7/8/2011)
Review of On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (Literary Review, August 2011)
Review of Ghost Milk by Iain Sinclair (Sunday Times, 10/7/2011)
Meeting Debbie Harry (Irish Times, 9/7/2011)
Review of The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (Sunday Times, 19/6/2011)
The life of James Joyce (Sunday Times, 12/6/2011)
Dinner with Ali Smith (Times Literary Supplement, 1/6/2011)
Review of The Professor and Other Writings by Terry Castle (Sunday Times, 15/5/2011)
Review of The Forgotten Walz by Anne Enright (Daily Telegraph, 28/4/2011)
Review of The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier (Sunday Times, 31/3/2011)
Review of King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher (Times Literary Supplement, 25/3/2011)
Review of The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell (London Review of Books, 3/2/2011)
Review of Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Sunday Times, 30/1/2011)
Review of Pulse by Julian Barnes (Times Literary Supplement, 7/1/2011)
Review of Working the Room by Geoff Dyer (Sunday Times, 7/11/2010)
Review of Fame by Daniel Kehlmann (Observer, 19/9/2011)
Review of Screwtop Thompson by Magnus Mills (Times Literary Supplement, 29/10/2010)
Review of Atlantic by Simon Winchester (Sunday Times, 3/10/2010)
Review of Heartbreak by Craig Raine (New Statesman, 5/7/2010)
Penelope Fitzgerald’s juvenilia (Times Literary Supplement, 2/7/2010)
The letters of George Orwell (Sunday Times, 9/5/2010)
Review of The Suicide Run by William Styron (Observer, 24/1/2010)
Review of The Convent by Panos Karnezis (Times Literary Supplement, 8/1/2010)
Review of Ransom by David Malouf (Times Literary Supplement, 20/11/2009)
Review of Love and Summer by William Trevor (Times Literary Supplement, 4/9/2009)
The life of Elizabeth Taylor (Times Literary Supplement, 24/4/2009)
English fiction in the 1940s (Times Literary Supplement, 19/12/2008)
Review of The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham (Times Literary Supplement, 3/9/2008)