Selected Writing

Essays & Reviews & Features

Read me a story: the joy of adults reading out loud | The 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

Do we really want cis men to speak up about abortion? | Gawker

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

The infographic industrial complex | Kinfolk

What online discourse gets wrong about therapy | New Statesman

How “millennial money management“ sells the illusion of financial control | New Statesman

“Toxic” relationships, “burnout”, “productivity dysmorphia” – why do we medicalise societal problems? | New Statesman

Why Ted Lasso is the most overrated show on TV | New Statesman

Steven Bartlett’s self-help guide to helping himself | New Statesman