Writing

I write about topics to do with cultural politics, visual art, race and the environment for a range of publications including The Baffler, Apollo Magazine, Dissent, The New Statesman, Tribune, The Times Literary Supplement, Wired, Metropolis M and Art Review.

Recent work

A Microcosm of the World, CLR James interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction, The New York Review of Books, December 2024.

Morbid Symptoms, The Horror Show at Somerset House, The Baffler, March 2023.

The Art of the Flood, The Banshees of Inisherin, reviewed, Tribune, January 2023.

‘Bloodlines’ by Amie Siegel, reviewed, Apollo, July 2022.

The Myth of England’s Rural Idyll, The New Statesman, June 2022.

A Curious Freedom, Times Literary Supplement, May 2022.

Anatomy as Destiny, Times Literary Supplement, January 2022.

Demystifying Migration, Tribune, December 2021.

Artists and Writers Draw on ‘Deep Imagination’ to Stage a Counterpoint to COP26, ArtReview, November 2021.

Empire 2.0, The Baffler, July 2021.

The Private Life of Empire, Dissent, January 2020.

Art’s Ecological Turn and the Sixth Great Extinction, Frieze, November 2019.

What the UK Porn Block Misunderstands About Adult Content, Frieze, March 2019.

Mark Fisher’s Popular Modernism, Tribune/Jacobin, January 2019.

A conversation with Terre Thaemlitz - ‘Fuck art, seriously. Fuck music. Fuck religion, while we're at it,’ Metropolis M, October 2018.

Spare change is dying, and the UK's homeless people are worried, Wired, August 2018.

The long, noble and stinky quest to make human shit useful, Wired, July 2018.

The under-diagnosis of autism in women and girls is a story of gender inequality, Wired, May 2018.

How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women, openDemocracy, December 2017.

Dispatches: Cologne, Frieze, July 2017.

Waking up to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, openDemocracy, December 2016.

Private Interests Valued over Human Lives in Flint, Michigan, Inter Press Service, October 2016.

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