I review ideas-driven non-fiction books, often on “the science of us” – psychology, society, technology and how we live now – and I have a big soft spot for messy memoirs about love and dating. Here’s a selection of some of my reviews.
Reviews
- The Woman who Made the Rape Kit: (New Statesman) February 2025
- Lessons from the Afterlife (New Statesman) January 2025
- Love me by Marianne Power review (The Times) August 2024
- The Ozempic Effect (New Statesman) June 2024
- The Perils of Polyamory (New Statesman) April 2024
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison (The Guardian) March 2024
- Languishing by Corey Keyes – how to stop feeling down (The Times) February 2024
- David Brooks’ delusions of moral decline (New Statesman) October 2023
Books Essays
- The Nordic parenting myth (New Statesman) April 2024
- The big idea: is being ‘good enough’ better than perfection? (The Guardian) January 2024
- The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers (The Guardian) November 2023
- The big idea: are memories fact or fiction? (The Guardian) September 2023
- The ultra-processed food swindle (New Statesman) June 2023