– On New York School Poets (NYRB)

– On Jane Bowles (LRB)

– On a summer in the Special Care Baby Unit (Guardian)

– On foraging (Esquire)

– On Welsh football and the unifying ugliness of the bucket hat (The Guardian)

– On childbirth during a pandemic (Esquire)

– A summer's day in Leigh-on-Sea (The Guardian)

– On playing football with Knausgaard (The Atlantic)

– On having an impersonator on Instagram (LRB)

– On writing for video games (LRB)

– On death, parenting and Pixar (Esquire)

– Review of Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas translated by Michael Hoffmann (LRB)

– Daughter of Radium (Granta)

– Review of Gerard Reve's Childhood (LRB)

– On Swansea (The Guardian)

– More writers' football (Granta)

– They eat maggots, don't they? (Guardian, extracted from A Fork In The Road)

– Unfaithfulness as a virtue: on adapting books for film (The Guardian)

– Near-death in Bihar (New York Times)

– Even more writers' football! (Radio 4)

– On door-to-door sales in Australia (The Observer)

– The making of Submarine (The Guardian)

– On W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. (Five Dials)

– On infiltrating OULIPO (Five Dials)