Journalism
I write about art, books, and culture for a range of publications in the UK and the US. Some of my recent work is linked below. Do get in contact to commission me.
Essays and features
January 2024 - Air Mail, The Mother of Invention. An essay about research into early modern infertility, and finding new life when writing the end of Pure Wit.
September 2023 - Prospect, Death of an Altarpiece. An essay-review about Dürer’s artwork, and his place in German Renaissance artistic culture.
September 2023 - Telegraph, How a cross-dressing, bullet-dodging, 17th century duchess blazed a trail for sci-fi culture. An essay about Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World.
August 2023 - The Times, Rereading: The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
April 2023, Telegraph, Zealous, sex-mad and ‘culturally insensitive’: is Stanley Spencer doomed?
February 2023, The TLS, review of Poets in Vogue at the Southbank Centre
Book reviews
January 2024, The Spectator, review of Balsam Karam’s The Singularity.
November 2023, The Spectator, review of Celia Dale’s Sheep’s Clothing.
October 2023, The Telegraph, review of Islam Issa’s Alexandria.
October 2023, The Spectator, review of Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed.
September 2023, The Telegraph, review of Yelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark.
August 2023, The Spectator, review of Diane Williams’s I Hear You’re Rich.
June 2023, The Telegraph, review of Pamela Frankau’s A Wreath for the Enemy.
April 2023, The Telegraph, review of Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s Russian Gothic.
Art
December 2023, Telegraph, review of Chaucer Here and Now, at the Bodleian Libraries.
November 2023, Telegraph, review of Burma to Myanmar, at the British Museum.
October 2023, Telegraph, review of Real Families, at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
July 2023, The Spectator World, essay about Germaine Richier, and the retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
June 2023, Telegraph, review of Carrie Mae Weems at the Barbican.
June 2023, Telegraph, review of Capturing the Moment at the Tate Modern.
March 2023, Prospect, The origins of Alice Neel