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BOOKS

Emergency, a novel, 2022

 

The Second Body, an essay, 2017

 

Hunters in the Snow, a novel, 2013

 

online / paywalled or offline

 

OTHER

2026

story ‘Calf’,  in Elastic magazine of psychedelic art and literature

essay Liquid Objects’, on Antony Gormley’s ‘Cosmic’ drawings, in Drawing: Antony Gormley

reading at the launch of Elastic Issue 2, 11 June

conversation with Heather Houser, UCL 2 June 

reading at the launch of Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment: A comparative study of contemporary fiction amid neoliberal ruins by Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, UCL, 21 May

workshop and wildflower planting with motoring students, Wensleydale, 14 April

reading, ‘Shrimp’s Eye View’, Lychee One, 10 April

group exhibition, ‘Shrimp’s Eye View’ at Lychee One gallery, March-April

2025

group exhibition Second Body, David Kordansky, Los Angeles

stories Future Observatory Journal, ‘In Abundance’ issue

talk on the pastoral novel, Reference Point, London, 09 December

reading launch of Fish /Circle publication, Serpentine Galleries at RCA Battersea, 27 October

interview in The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Publication

story Susanne Kriemann’s Being a Photograph

essay Emily Cropton’s work on the river Tweed

talk with Kimberly Campanello, Waterstones, Islington, 30 September

talk with Gurnaik Johal and Sam Fisher, on the novel at a time of crisis, Libreria, 10 September

afterword with Caleb Klaces, typohypergraphicobject, James Langdon

essay Being Landscape, More Than Human exhibition catalogue, The Design Museum

review 20th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, e-flux criticism

review Laila Lalami’s novel The Dream Hotel, The Guardian

essay ‘The Sacrifice’, on cattle, Octopus magazine, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

 

essay ‘Above/Below’, on TROIKA, Pink Noise

talk with Bronwen Katz and Kat Lyons, Edel Assanti, 5 March

reading with Padraig Regan, Blackwell’s Manchester, 4 March

talk with Ariana Reines and Nikita Gill, ‘Into Eternal Land’, Barbican Centre, 9 Feb

review Catherine Airey’s novel Confessions, The Guardian

2024

story ‘Revision’, The New Yorker

talk with Lucy Mercer for bricks-from-the-kiln, London, 14 December

 

talk with Kate Briggs for the Longplayer project, Swedenborg House, 12 Dec 24

 

stories Future Observatory Journal: More Than Human issue

 

review Helen Phillips’s novel Hum, The Guardian

 

story ‘Biography of a Net’, bricks from the kiln 7

reading at the launch of Alice Channer’s Heavy Metals / Silk Cut, London, Forma, 5 Dec 

essay ‘Open Windows’, for Mary Ramsden’s Desire Line 

workshop/reading Care Ecologies, DAS graduate school/San Seriffe bookshop, Amsterdam, 4 October

talk with Esther Kinsky, Sheffield, Juno Books, 27 September

review Mariel Franklin’s novel Bonding, The Guardian

review Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, e-flux

project with Shezad Dawood for Wild Eye, Scarborough 

talk with Claire Carroll, La Biblioteka, Sheffield, 18 June

reading/conversation Leeds Environmental Humanities group, 04 June

essay Antony Gormley’s Time Horizon 

review Martin MacInnes’s novel In Ascension, The New York Review of Books 

text ‘You are the Product’, Granta

review Tongues of Fire group exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, e-flux

talk/workshop on rubbish at the Royal College of Art, 16 April

talk with Jessi Jezewska Stevens on her new book Ghost Pains, Foyles, 10 April

text on a Vibeke Mascini t-shirt label

2023

film screenings and conversation with Patrick Hough, Curzon Hoxton, 6 December

story about Ben Rivers, Collected Stories

review Ali Millar’s novel Ava Anna Ada, The Guardian 

reading The Mark on the Wall’, Ben Rivers at Jeu de Paume, Paris, 18 Nov

talk ‘Waste’, Serpentine Galleries Infinite Ecologies Marathon Prelude, London, 14 Oct

keynote ‘Morecambe, The Universe’, Morecambe Bay Milieux, 06 September

text on Svetlana Alexievitch’s Chernobyl Prayer, TANK

 

essay Whose Raw Materials? The New Provincial Literature’, on Marit Kapla, Irene Solà, and Esther Kinsky, LA Review of Books

 

story ‘Waste’, in English in Blood and Cord, Emma Press, and in Portuguese in Limoeiro Real

 

story ‘Hair in my mouth’, for Alice Channer’s solo show Heavy Metals / Silk Cut

 

essay ‘Vehicle Portrait’, for Harriet Bowman’s solo show Maybe they had an urgent call

essay for Max Miechowski’s Land Loss

 

essay James Lovelock’s life from the Big Bang on, in Ever Gaia, isolarii, read on Literary Hub

 

essay ‘Warm Frost’, on Siberia and permafrost, Dissolving Earths 

podcast on Covid fiction, Prospect

podcast Unsound Methods

talk in conversation with Harriet Bowman, Phoenix, Exeter, 17 June

talk in conversation with Ellen Wiles, The Exploding Bakery, Exeter, 16 June

talk Anthropocene Legacies seminar, King’s College, University of London, 22 May

talk Lynn Margulis - Gaia and science, in conversation with Edna Bonhomme, Merlin Sheldrake, and Gaia Vince, Science Gallery, London, 22 April

review Sara Baume’s novel Seven Steeples, The New York Review of Books

review Anna Metcalfe’s novel Chrysalis, The Guardian

review Julianne Pachico’s novel Jungle House, The Guardian

blog on writing Emergency, London Review Bookshop

 

Q&A United by Pop

 

reading list for an emergency, London Review Bookshop

 

2022

 

story ‘The Footprint’s Story’, Orion

 

interview with Helen Whybrow, Orion

 

story ‘Scenes from a Supply Chain’, Somesuch

 

story Ool, for In the Round - Adaptation, and in Norwegian for Laure Prouvost’s In Your Hands

 

essay ‘H’, in Overpass by Sam Contis

 

essay / podcast War on the Air’, on disaster and nature, in Emergence 

 

essay ‘Taking Care’, on the care industry, Orion 

wordgame for Laure Prouvost’s Cooling System, and in Norwegian for In Your Hands

 

essay on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, textwork

 

article on writing about DGF, e-flux

 

essay ‘Kuebiko’, on a scarecrow goddess, for Lauren Gault’s Galalith, edited by Katharine Murphy

 

article on eating bugs in books, Literary Hub

 

blog ‘What is an Emergency?’ for Writers Rebel

 

article on spambot charisma and Anicka Yi’s installation ‘In Love With The World’, e-flux

 

interview with Nell Whittaker, TANK

 

interview in conversation with Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Wasafiri

 

podcast interviewing marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd for Undead Matter

 

review, Stephanie LaCava’s novel I Fear My Pain Interests You, The Guardian

 

review, Imogen Crimp’s novel A Very Nice Girl, The Guardian

 

review of Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ novel The Visitors, The Guardian