One of my favourite publications, The Fence, have a new, beautiful book out called The Pub, published by Penguin/Ebury Press: featuring the best, and the blurst, of British […]

Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means […]

I’ve got a little review in the latest TLS of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook — a dead spooky collection of ghost stories for the 21st Century. […]

I wrote a piece for The Millions about how, in 1979, Italo Calvino predicted the AI author in one of his best-loved novels, and what the reality of […]