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)