‘What’s Wrong With Community?’ (2025)
A short story on the topic of community for the new issue of Tank magazine.
For the Financial Times, an essay about the real gardens that inspired Paradise Lost, and the gardens inspired by its visions of infinite abundance and eventual catastrophe.
‘The Rewarding Mystery of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’ (2025)
An article for Apollo magazine on the mysterious paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and my changing understanding of them over the past twelve years.
‘Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students’ (2024)
An excerpt from my book in Literary Hub, describing a period of five years spent teaching in prisons in New Jersey, and some of the things I learned from my students.
An article for the Literary Review on the 350th anniversary of the final publication of Paradise Lost.
‘“Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry’ (2021)
An essay on the figure of Fortune in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, in Fate and Fortune in European Thought, a volume of scholarly essays edited by Ovanes Akopyan.
A pamphlet on the dusk as an object of collective enjoyment, and its prohibition during the lockdown, beautifully printed and published by Earthbound Press.
Interview: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2017)
An interview with the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto for CNN Style. We spoke about his astonishing images of Italian theatres, his seascapes, climate change, and the Manhattan Westside development.
Interview: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2015)
An interview with the painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for The White Review. It was republished in the White Review Art Anthology.
An essay for Tank magazine on the novelist Teju Cole, and his novels’ meditations on New York and Lagos.
Interview: Hassan Hajjaj (2012)
An interview with the photographer Hassan Hajjaj, published in The Guardian.