My – ambivalent but ultimately fond – review of Sally Rooney's new novel, in which something is lost and something gained @NewStatesman @FaberBooks https://t.co/vhCEQbBZs6

I wrote about Chris Kraus for @Harpers https://t.co/qSvUnvm67v

'He dissimulated even when the truth would have served him. Disclosure invited scrutiny; scrutiny invited limits; limits imperilled the office.' Grey Anderson on Dick Cheney (1941–2025): https://t.co/J1du1UMET9

It’s finally here. We will build our party together. But into what, how and for what purpose? I discussed that all with @Oliver_Eagleton. https://t.co/TiToZAfKeg

I wrote about Sheila Heti for @nybooks https://t.co/0VrnUeLlBw

For @NewStatesman I wrote about Notes to John, Joan Didion's unpolished but undeniably interesting record of sessions with a psychiatrist in 1999-2002, found near her desk when she died https://t.co/LW51rz0TYv

Here’s my somewhat lengthy but cameo-strewn @NewLeftReview SCar piece on Bob Dylan from 61-66—his aesthetic priorities + personal obsessions, plus why he’d have hated online dating, via the fun if limited A Complete Unknown (h/t @mrianleslie @lola_seaton) https://t.co/eA0PUKnzSR

"Attacking neoliberalism for its official aversion to government intervention has limited political traction in an age when public institutions are so deeply intertwined with the escalating concentration of private wealth." https://t.co/vM2dGZn9HF

fantastic piece on the Irish novelist Sally Rooney via her new book Intermezzo (def the best I've read so far)

This is an amazing piece which it feels like no one else in the world could have written

For @NewLeftReview, I wrote about Yoko Tawada’s “Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.”

On Martin Amis’s memorial and language as a source of joy https://t.co/JXSpCPcjGt

For the latest @NewLeftReview I wrote about Anne Carson and ten things you can do to avoid boredom (jk...sort of) https://t.co/FELpfew7uV

For @NewStatesman I reviewed Lauren Oyler’s new essay collection No Judgement, and reflected on the fun, as well as, sometimes, the frustration, of self-awareness in writing (by which I mean the performance of self-awareness)

For @NewStatesman I reviewed Lauren Oyler’s new essay collection No Judgement, and reflected on the fun, as well as, sometimes, the frustration, of self-awareness in writing (by which I mean the performance of self-awareness)

For @LRB I wrote about the novels of AK Blakemore

Be honest who here reads every single chartbook

I would hate to be someone who receives hundreds of emails a day. Hope that never happens to me

Fab essay by ⁦@lola_seaton⁩ on the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark in the ⁦@NewStatesman⁩. ‘It’s music that lines your heart’.

"The sound of someone thinking and feeling aloud, Mitchell’s profoundly moving songs – across her body of work – show you that you are sadder than you realised but also at times happier than you might like to think." Marvellous appreciation of Court & Spark, from @lola_seaton