selected essays
Time and Space, Bending, pamphlet for “Believe Only the Caravan’s Trace” exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2020
On Being Naked, Elle Magazine, 2019
Tió de Nadal, The New York Times Magazine, 2018
Bleach Wax Shave Repeat, “On Bodies: An Anthology” (3 of Cups Press), 2018
On Being a Trend, The Millions, 2018
Saturn, The New York Times Magazine, 2017
"9900CC", Web Safe 2k16, 2016
on writing –
author interviews
Mary H. K. Choi, Riposte Magazine | Esmé Weijun Wang, The Paris Review | Heather Havrilesky, Broadly | Elaine Castillo, The Guardian | Sheila Heti, Broadly | Alicia Kopf, The Guardian | Olivia Sudjic, Literary Hub | Sharlene Teo, The Guardian | Akwaeke Emezi, Broadly | Roz Chast, Broadly | Emma Glass, The Guardian | Carmen Maria Machado, Broadly | Valeria Luiselli, Broadly | Yrsa Daley-Ward, Elle | Zinzi Clemmons, The Guardian | Jillian Tamaki, The Guardian | Eli Goldstone, The Guardian | Amy Liptrot, Literary Hub | Aura Xilonen, Electric Literature | Yaa Gyasi, Broadly | Alexandra Kleeman, The Guardian | Olivia Laing, Oh Comely Magazine | Brit Bennett, Electric Literature & Broadly | Idra Novey, The Guardian [full version on Medium] | Milena Busquets, Literary Hub | Kathleen Alcott, The Guardian | Molly Crabapple, The Guardian Guide
on reading and publishing – features
The best new fiction in translation, Guardian Review, 2019
Looking for Paris's Old Left Bank in the Footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Literary Hub, 2018
Meet the Woman Spearheading Inclusivity in UK Publishing, Literary Hub, 2018
‘Just being a woman is an act of resistance’ (group feature), The Lily (The Washington Post), 2017
Books help us remember ‘we are part of the same human storyline’ (group feature), The Lily (The Washington Post), 2017
In “Whitman, Alabama,” a journalist breaks stereotypes of the American South, Huck Magazine, 2017
On Warsan Shire and Beyoncé, Literary Hub, 2017
Interviews with literary podcasters, Literary Hub, 2016
In praise of Zadie Smith's London, Literary Hub, 2016
On The Good Immigrant, The Guardian, 2016
The rise of the small press on the Man Booker shortlist, Literary Hub, 2016
Inside the world of judging the Man Booker Prize, Literary Hub, 2016
Small data is the new big data, Literary Hub, 2016
On Ask Polly, The Guardian, 2016
Bittersweet Symphony, review of “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” Literary Review, 2016
Meet the Greek writers revolutionising poetry in the age of austerity, The Guardian, 2016
The perks of getting lost at the London Book Fair, Literary Hub, 2016
Stacks of fun – the man piling up books across NYC, The Guardian, 2016
Finnegans Wake: a musical reading sounds out a cryptic text, The Guardian, 2016
Florence and the lit scene: how a fan's dream became a star's book club, The Guardian, 2016
No trolls allowed: Seattle advertises a writing residency … in a bridge, The Guardian, 2016
Slaughterhouse 90210: where literature meets pop culture, The Guardian, 2015
Poets speak out for refugees: 'No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark', The Guardian, 2015
Calais migrant camp gets makeshift library – and it needs more books, The Guardian, 2015
The transgender teddy bear teaching children about friendship and identity, The Guardian, 2015
On the road: mapping the great road trips of American literature, The Guardian, 2015
Can Google be taught poetry? The Guardian, 2015 – Referenced in The Paris Review
Kickstarting a books revolution: the literary crowdfunding boom, The Guardian, 2015
Why did we see Don Draper reading Dante's Inferno in Mad Men?, The Guardian G2, 2015
Read ’em and sleep: how one tweet led to a literary lock-in, The Observer, 2014
music
Rosalía, New York Times Magazine, 2019
Brooke Candy, CRACK Magazine, 2018
Gwenno, Oh Comely Magazine, 2018
Ibeyi, Oh Comely Magazine, 2017
Angel Olsen, Oh Comely Magazine, 2017
Kali Uchis, Oh Comely Magazine, 2017
Jones, Oh Comely Magazine, 2017
Emmy the Great, 2017
visual culture
Leo Villareal: Scale Factor, Outland, 2022
On Sam Contis and Dorothea Lange, Literary Hub, 2020
The Photographer Documenting the Imperfections of Female Adolescence, Broadly, 2017
Tokens no more: meet the artists making women of colour truly seen, The Guardian, 2016
Molly Crabapple: the sketcher blurring activism and art, The Guardian Guide, 2016
Rogues gallery: how photographers are targeting the 1%, The Guardian, 2016
The medium is the message – the power of public poetry, The Guardian, 2016
film and television
Yes, God, Yes: the film nailing teenage sexuality, The Guardian, 2017
Filmmaking as Social Justice: How 'Signature Move' Breaks Queer Stereotypes, Broadly (29/03/2017)
Interview with director Anna Rose Holmer on her film The Fits, Huck Magazine, 2017
How to fight trans invisibility in film: on the documentary Songs for Alexis, The Guardian, 2015
My guilty pleasure: My Best Friend's Wedding, The Guardian, 2014
Feature on silence for Perdiz. Photographs by Rita Puig-Serra Costa and Dani Pujalte
reporting
'The feeling of freedom': empowering Berlin's refugee women through cycling, The Guardian, 2018
On Silence (bilingual feature in Spanish and English), Perdiz Magazine, 2017 (extract on FvF). Photographs by Rita Puig-Serra Costa and Dani Pujalte
In limbo in Melilla: the young refugees trapped in Spain's African enclave, The Guardian, 2017
The sports hero who disguised herself from the Taliban, Huck Magazine (print issue 60), 2017
Can a slum built on a World Heritage Site in Mexico City have rights?, The Guardian, 2015
The Enfield Experiment: teenagers talk lives, futures and youth politics, The Guardian, 2014
urbanism
How Assemble wants to change future cities, one street at a time, Freunde von Freunden, 2018
Streets without shops: how apps are transforming our local neighbourhoods, The Guardian, 2016
Superblocks to the rescue: Barcelona’s plan to give streets back to residents, The Guardian, 2016
Story of cities: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation', The Guardian, 2016
food
Oversharing Over Eating, FUET Magazine, 2016 (sneak peek)
Adbusters: Lessons in 21st-Century Food Activism, FUET Magazine, 2016
Nightjar: The Liquid Time Capsule, FUET Magazine, 2015
