Selected Work
Essays & Reviews & Features
Why do we keep putting women into subcultures? | Observer
Read me a story: the joy of adults reading out loud | Observer Magazine
Everyone hates the critic: on the backlash to critique | New Statesman
Beware the ‘beige-fluencers’, cheerleaders for a life of no surprises | Guardian
The flaws and fallacies of ‘sad girl’ novels | Guardian
Your therapist shouldn’t be on TikTok | New Statesman
I quit trying to be friends with my exes – and learned there is power in letting go | Guardian
In My Body, Emily Ratajkowski asks difficult questions about beauty and capitalism. Does she have any answers? | New Statesman
How I mastered the mental game of tennis | New Statesman
The future of work: the problem with millennial productivity books | New Statesman
What online discourse gets wrong about therapy | New Statesman
“Toxic” relationships, “burnout”, “productivity dysmorphia” – why do we medicalise societal problems? | New Statesman
Steven Bartlett’s self-help guide to helping himself | New Statesman
Interviews
Avril Lavigne on twenty years of Let Go | Guardian
Shon Faye on trans liberation | New Statesman
Symeon Brown on the exploitative influencer economy | New Statesman
Leïla Slimani on family, Paris, and sexual violence | New Statesman
Jonathan Nunn on food media and creating Vittles | New Statesman
Yaa Gyasi on publishing’s race problem | New Statesman