– On Jane Bowles (LRB)
– On foraging (Esquire)
– On Welsh football and the unifying ugliness of the bucket hat (The Guardian)
– A summer's day in Leigh-on-Sea (The Guardian)
– On playing football with Knausgaard (The Atlantic)
– On having an impersonator on Instagram (LRB)
– On writing for video games (LRB)
– On death, parenting and Pixar (Esquire)
– Review of Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas translated by Michael Hoffmann (LRB)
– Daughter of Radium (Granta)
– Review of Gerard Reve's Childhood (LRB)
– On Swansea (The Guardian)
– More writers' football (Granta)
– They eat maggots, don't they? (Guardian, extracted from A Fork In The Road)
– Unfaithfulness as a virtue: on adapting books for film (The Guardian)
– Near-death in Bihar (New York Times)
– Even more writers' football! (Radio 4)
– On door-to-door sales in Australia (The Observer)
– The making of Submarine (The Guardian)
– On W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. (Five Dials)
– On infiltrating OULIPO (Five Dials)