Essays

Who’s Offended by Virginia Woolf? the New Statesman, 2024

‘The Small-Girl’s Proust’ (on Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle), the New York Review of Books, 2024

Virginia Woolf’s diaries, the New Statesman, 2023 [PDF]

Why read life-writing? the New Statesman, 2023 [PDF]

The dark heart of Roald Dahl, the New Statesman, 2022 [PDF]

How do we tell the story of Sylvia Plath? the New Statesman, 2020 [PDF]

The problem of Queen Anne’s body, the New Statesman, 2019

Why is publishing obsessed with “rebel women”? the New Statesman, 2018