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
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
Out of the Cold in the New Statesman - May 2013
Prozac and Creativity in the Observer - May 2013
Abuja: Nigeria's Unfinished Capital Built on Stolen Land in BBC Magazine - October 2013
Sons of Anarchy - Boko Haram in GQ - February 2014
Room at the Top - London's Super Prime Housing Market in the Observer - April 2014
Boko Haram's War on Women in GQ - May 2014
Jade Smuggling in Burma in BBC Magazine - July 2014
Field of Dreams in Town & Country - August 2014
The Death of Privacy in the Observer - August 2014
In Search of the Komodo Dragon in Harper's Bazaar - September 2014
Florence in Harper's Bazaar - September 2014
The End of Sex in The Observer - September 2014
Drug-Taking Parents in The Observer - October 2014
Brideshead Revisited in Town & Country - November 2014
Fear of Flying in The Observer - December 2014
Interview with Sophie Turner in Town & Country - January 2015
The Burmese Bin Laden in GQ - February 2015
Ten Best Sex Scenes in The Guardian - February 2015
At the Karachi Literature Festival in The Observer - February 2015
The War Against the Humanities in The Observer - March 2015
Brexit in The Observer - April 2015
The Mysterious Murder of a Pakistani Professor in Newsweek - April 2015
The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler's Bed in The Guardian - June 2015
The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler's Bed - Podcast - July 2015
Yeonmi Park and North Korea in The Observer - October 2015
Sara Khan in The Guardian - October 2015