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Sep 29, 2025
1.Talk us through your career trajectory. You’ve been a parliamentary assistant, advertising researcher, London tour guide. How does all of that connect?
It doesn’t! My...
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Jul 7, 2025
Literary culture is dominated by pessimists. They claim that the English novel is in a slump, the media is dying at the hand of tech oligarchs, and that culture is in a repetitive...
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May 26, 2025
Virginia Woolf might be at once the English novelist who is the most accomplished and the most shrugged off. The characters of Mrs Dalloway were never going to appear on cigarette...
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May 12, 2025
Let’s assume it’s all over. I don’t believe that the humanities are dead, but let’s believe the hype. Let’s believe that college graduates using ChatGPT...
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Mar 28, 2025
Brideshead Revisited is one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. It is beloved, but it also provokes antipathy — as it always has. When Evelyn Waugh wrote the...
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Feb 17, 2025
When Sam Kahn asked if I wanted to have a written debate about AI and literature (after my recent piece ‘Literary Culture Can’t Just Dismiss AI’) I immediately...
Sep 29, 20251.Talk us through your career trajectory. You’ve been a parliamentary assistant, advertising researcher, London tour guide. How does all of that connect? It doesn’t! My...
Jul 7, 2025Literary culture is dominated by pessimists. They claim that the English novel is in a slump, the media is dying at the hand of tech oligarchs, and that culture is in a repetitive...
May 26, 2025Virginia Woolf might be at once the English novelist who is the most accomplished and the most shrugged off. The characters of Mrs Dalloway were never going to appear on cigarette...
May 12, 2025Let’s assume it’s all over. I don’t believe that the humanities are dead, but let’s believe the hype. Let’s believe that college graduates using ChatGPT...
Mar 28, 2025Brideshead Revisited is one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. It is beloved, but it also provokes antipathy — as it always has. When Evelyn Waugh wrote the...
Feb 17, 2025When Sam Kahn asked if I wanted to have a written debate about AI and literature (after my recent piece ‘Literary Culture Can’t Just Dismiss AI’) I immediately...