Before moving to Los Angeles, I did not understand the allure of swimming in water the colour of blood
I was not familiar with the sensation of drifting on a prawn-shaped inflatable beneath a lavender twilight sky […]
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By benefaction of Achilles Rizzoli – Master Architect and High Prince of a kingdom of heavenly homes – a deceased house cat attains equivalence with its ideal form
Originally published in The Iowa Review
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Occasional unscrolling of a quest to decode the meaning of medieval culture in Los Angeles
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In which my teenage alter-ego takes a trip around town
What started as ekphrasis took me to other places
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A review of The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction
Originally published in The Literateur
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A review of Down Below and The Complete Stories by Leonora Carrington
Originally published in The Millions
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A review of Orpheus & Eurydice: A Graphic-Poetic Exploration, by Tom de Freston and Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Originally published in The Millions
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Beneath a veneer of modesty, the best short stories harbour megalomaniac tendencies
Originally published in The Spectator
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Throughout history
Every mystery
Ever solved has turned out to be
Not Magic.
Originally published in The Oxonian Review
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The Gifts project was part of the Utopia Treasury exhibition at Somerset House in London
This essay was published in the catalogue which accompanied the project
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