Memory, Silence, Displacement On Lola Lafon’s When You Listen to This Song (Irish Times)
That Nice Dr Asperger On Alice Jolly’s The Matchbox Girl (Literary Review)
Family Worship On Kate Riley’s Ruth (The TLS)
Parks, Monopoly & Death On Nolwenn Le Blevennec’s Friends and Lovers (Literary Review)
Dead Soul On Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat (Literary Review)
A Web of Rivalries On Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey (The Spectator)
Widows by Brigitte Giraud, translated from French, with commentary (Asymptote; long-listed for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2026 anthology)
Confessions of a Botanist On David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return (Literary Review)
The Lost World of Jewish Rhodes On Michael Frank’s One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes (The Spectator)
How to Forget a Massacre: What Happened in Paris on October 17, 1961 (Los Angeles Review of Books)
His Life as a Feminist On Iván Repila’s The Ally (Literary Review)
Strange Fruit On Leïla Slimani’s The Country of Others: War, War, War – Volume One (Literary Review)
A Helping Hand On David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black (Literary Review)
From Family Home to Mausoleum: the Musée Nissim Camondo On Edmund de Waal’s Letters to Camondo (The Spectator)
Houses in the Air On Deborah Levy’s Real Estate (Literary Review)
Iveton Undone On Joseph Andras’s Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us (Literary Review)
Cooking A Wolf During Lockdown (The Hedgehog Review)
The Magic of Untidiness Unpacking a library (The Point)
Simple Living Simple living isn’t easy (The Point)
Does Speaking English Rot Your Teeth? On literary hero worship and the pursuit of a perfect French accent (The Millions)
Among the Precocious The trials of children racing to complete first novels (The Millions)
Cooking Ten Minute Meals With Ferran Adrià (Gilt Taste)
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