An addiction catastrophe
Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week... Read Full Article
Miami vice
Published by The Spectator (15th May, 2021) Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring by Jay... Read Full Article
The making of a monster
Published by The Times (20th March, 2021) Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime... Read Full Article
The courage of a madman
Published by The Spectator (14th November, 2020) The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest... Read Full Article
Tantrums of a tyrant
Published by The Spectator (8th August, 2020) Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen (Granta) It is easy to forget the abnormality... Read Full Article
Plumbing the depths
Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two... Read Full Article
Fear and facts: why we ignore experts
Published by The i paper (2nd March, 2020) Six months ago, an American musician friend sent me two books with... Read Full Article
Notes from a cruel climate
Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse... Read Full Article
How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?
Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article
Glimpse into a murky world
Published by The Spectator (26th October, 2019) The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi... Read Full Article