Literary

I’ve written an open letter to Elena Ferrrante speculating on her identity, reviewed Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, and interviewed Ferrante via email for The New York Times. I’ve also explored the (lost) battle to save James Baldwin’s House in the South of France, Post-Apartheid fiction in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer’s falling-out with her biographer and debates over race in Pippi Longstocking in Sweden. My profiles include the Nobel Laureates in literature Svetlana Alexievich, Patrick Modiano and V.S. Naipaul, as well as Joan Didion, Hanif Kureishi, Kate (now Kae) Tempest, Michel Houellebecq, Emmanuel Carrère, Helen Vendler, Dany Laferrière and the literary archive agent Glenn Horowitz. My reviews include work by Bernard Malamud, Deborah Levy, Jan Morris and Philippe Sands.