Writing
A selection of recent pieces.
2024
October, Spectator, Life’s little graces: Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell, reviewed.
September, Prospect, Children of men.
September, Telegraph, The Reflected Self: Portrait Miniatures, 1540-1850.
July, Spectator, Making the fur fly: Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by Noémi Kiss-Deáki.
July, Apollo, A Madonna pregnant with meaning.
June, Prospect, Still life, still going.
June, Aeon, Her Blazing World.
June, The New York Times, Glitz and Grimness Cross Paths on London’s ‘Caledonian Road’.
January - Air Mail, The Mother of Invention.
January, The Spectator, review of Balsam Karam’s The Singularity.
April, Wall Street Journal, ‘The Pirate King’ Review: Setting Sail With Henry Avery.
March, Prospect, John Singer Sargent: back in fashion.
March, Telegraph, The little people who kindle architects’ strangest desires.
February, Spectator, The perils of Prague: Parasol Against the Axe, by Helen Oyeyemi, reviewed
2023
December, Telegraph, review of Chaucer Here and Now, at the Bodleian Libraries.
November, Spectator, review of Celia Dale’s Sheep’s Clothing.
November, Telegraph, review of Burma to Myanmar, at the British Museum.
October, Telegraph, review of Islam Issa’s Alexandria.
October, Telegraph, review of Real Families, at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
October, Spectator, review of Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed.
September, Telegraph, review of Yelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark.
August, Spectator, review of Diane Williams’s I Hear You’re Rich.
June, Telegraph, review of Pamela Frankau’s A Wreath for the Enemy.
June, Telegraph, review of Carrie Mae Weems at the Barbican.
April, Telegraph, review of Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s Russian Gothic.
September, Prospect, Death of an Altarpiece. An essay-review about Dürer’s artwork, and his place in German Renaissance artistic culture.
September, Telegraph, How a cross-dressing, bullet-dodging, 17th century duchess blazed a trail for sci-fi
August, The Times, Rereading: The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
July, The Spectator World, essay about Germaine Richier, and the retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
April, Telegraph, Zealous, sex-mad and ‘culturally insensitive’: is Stanley Spencer doomed?
March, Prospect, The origins of Alice Neel