Selected Writing

The Beautiful and the Ambitious: Reading Glossy and Exit Interview [The Culture We Deserve]

Feels Like Fate: The blurring of life and fiction in Graham Greene and Alain-Fournier [Astra Mag]

Set on Fire: Happy Valley and the mythologizing of colonial Kenya [Lapham’s Quarterly]

A Space Where the Soul Could Go to Rest: The life and work of Jean-Michel Frank [Lapham’s Quarterly]

Journal of the Plague Years: On Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise [Literary Review]

The Heart of the Trouble: On the novels of Gwendoline Riley [Paris Review Daily]

Anita Brookner Was No Latter-Day Jane Austen [Paris Review Daily]

The Great Writer Who Never Wrote: On the life of Stephen Tennant [Paris Review Daily]

Monsieur Bébé: The Brief, Strange Life of Raymond Radiguet [Paris Review Daily]

Feminize Your Canon: A series on the lives and work of underappreciated women authors [Paris Review Daily]

Introduction to Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man [The London Magazine]

The Sad, Short, Brilliant Life of Amy Levy, Victorian Jewish Novelist [Tablet Magazine]

Great Pretenders: In Romain Gary’s family, invention was the necessity of mother and son [Tablet Magazine]

The Man Who Invented Vampires: On The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron [Daily Beast]

Out of the Ash, Sylvia Plath's Legend Rises Anew: The 50th anniversary of The Bell Jar [Salon]

George du Maurier’s Trilby, the novel that gave us ‘Svengali’ [Longreads]