[for AnOther Magazine, 15/3/18]
Glamour is a rarefied form of everyone’s need for validation. People want to be seen; they want others to confirm they matter.
All in essays
lana and the bomb
[for GARAGE, 23/1/18]
Del Rey was born for the Bomb. Her voice is languorous and slow; her lyrics make emotion all too obvious. Everything’s so elegantly shaped and irresponsible that it challenges you to stay invested.
at the thames barrier
[for the LRB Blog, 27/12/17]
For two hours, I was the only person there. The weather was overcast, and not warm. The Thames looked drab, as it often does.
black cats, small victories
[for White Noise, 8/11/17]
At the match I attended in 2015, everything looked pleasantly wonky; during half-time, we could buy only one kind of beer and one kind of pie. This was the kind that came, inauspiciously, shrink-wrapped in a photo of a much better pie.