Essays and Criticism
Panic Literature in Untitled Books - March 2010
David Jones, Poet and Painter in The Thought Fox – August 2010
On Japan in the New Statesman - March 2011
God’s Bankers in the Independent on Sunday – April 2011
On David Foster Wallace in The Telegraph – April 2011
Faith-Based Investing in the New Statesman - April 2011
The Bankrupt Nihilism of Leo Grin in Salon Futura – May 2011
Align With Dissent: On Tom Paulin in the New Statesman – October 2011
Changing the Moral Climate: On Occupy and the Church in We Love This Book – November 2011
Things Fall Apart: The End of Year Essay in the New Statesman – December 2011
On Book Touring in Athens in the New Statesman - January 2012
Book of a Lifetime: Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair in The Independent - February 2012
Top Ten Literary Believers in the Guardian – February 2012
The Neo-Trollopians in the Observer - February 2012
Banker Blood in the Big Issue – February 2012
Five Priests in Untitled Books – March 2012
On Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs in the Independent – April 2012
Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 for Normblog – May 2012
The East Anglian Renaissance in the New Statesman – June 2012
Tale of a City in the New Statesman – July 2012
The Rise and Fall of Investment Banking in the New Statesman - October 2012
Russian Connections in The Telegraph – November 2012
Edinburgh World Writers; Festival, Siberia – November 2012
Not New Book of the Year in the Guardian – January 2013
The Review Show in the Guardian – March 2013