– A summer's day in Leigh-on-Sea (The Guardian)
– The Sociopolitical Significance of One Very Clumsy Soccer Match (aka My Struggle to Beat Knausgaard at Football) (The Atlantic)
– Real me and fake me (LRB)
– A branching narrative (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)
– Made in Swansea (The Guardian)
– Cyprus United (Granta)
– They eat maggots, don't they? (Guardian, extracted from A Fork In The Road)
– Unfaithfulness as a virtue: adapting books for film (The Guardian)
– Near-death in Bihar (New York Times)
– World cup for writers (Radio 4)
– Lessons from the mosh pit (Radio 4)
– Door-to-door sales (The Observer)
– The making of Submarine (The Guardian)
– W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. (Five Dials)
– Infiltrating OULIPO (Five Dials)