Selected Other Writing

Fiction

‘Casualties’, Mascara Literary Review, January 2023

‘Archival Technics’, The Johannesburg Review of Books, December 2021

‘Heretics’, Zoetrope: All Story, Summer 2017 [Paywall]

‘Interior: Monkeyboy’, Granta, Summer 2016 [Paywall]

Poetry

‘Letter to an Evolutionary Zoologist’, The Southern Review, Spring 2021 [Paywall]

Essay

‘“Why try / to revive the lyric”: Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss’ - The Chicago Review, November 2021

‘Fence Me In’ - on re-reading William Maxwell’s ‘They Came Like Swallows’ in the age of Covid-19

A Close Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ - BBC Radio 4, Open Book, 10 April 2020

‘Punch and Injury’ - on Jordan Wolfson’s ‘Colored sculpture’ at Tate Modern - The TLS, 13 June 2018

Review

Review of Ingrid Winterbach’s The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo, in the Johannesburg Review of Books, September 2019.



Other Recent Reviews

The Lime Tree by César Aira, Spectator. Feb. 2018.

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey, Spectator. Jan. 2018.

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett, Spectator. June 2016.

Moonstone by Sjón, TLS. June 2016.

Trencherman by Eben Venter, Guardian. March 2016.

The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood, Newsweek. April 2015.

Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish, Guardian. April 2015.

Mr. Bones by Paul Theroux, Guardian. 9 Oct. 2014.

California by Edan Lepucki, TLS. 9 Oct. 2014.

How to be both by Ali Smith, Telegraph. 30 Aug. 2014.

Outlaws by Javier Cercas, Guardian. 21 June 2014.

‘Upstairs, Downstairs’. The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, Telegraph, 31 May 2014.

The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee, Washington Post, Sept. 2013.