From the Book - First edition.
Women of letters talk for Ubud Readers and Writers Festival --
Putting away childish things, sermon in Manchester, England, 2013 --
Terminal friendship, THe Guardian, 2010 --
My teenage diary, The Guardian, 2015 --
The big story, Financial Times, 2013 --
Greg Shriver's Memorial Trivute, Durham, North Carolina, 2009 --
What did you do in the war, Mommy --
Fiction and identity politics, Brisbane Writers Festival Opening Address, 2016 --
Liberals now defy the etymology of the word, The New York Times, 2016 --
Writers blocked, Prospect 2018 --
Cruel and unusual punishment, Harper's Magazine, 2019 --
Lefty lingo, Harper's Magazine, 2019 --
Confessions of an expat --
No exit, Harper's Magazine, 2019 --
Patrios, Harper's Magazine, 2019 --
Getting the blood running --
Ode to the hacker, Prospect, 2011 --
London's unofficial Olympic sport, The Atlantic, 2012 --
Your gym routine is worthless, Unherd.com review-essay on Alison Bechdel's The secret to superhuman strength, 2021 --
I am not a kook, The New York Times, 2016 --
Ikea's real genius, The Spectator, 2018 --
Our institutions no longer understand what they are for, The Spectator, 2018 --
Dear WriteNow, The Spectator, 2018 --
He, she, and it, Prospect 2016 --
A monumental matter, The Spectator, 2017 --
Would you want London to be overrun by Americans like me, The Spectator, 2021 --
The criminalization of making money, New Criterion, 2010 --
Quote-unquote, The Wall Street Journal, 2008 --
Lionel Shriver is grateful for pandemic quarantine (No she isn't), Los Angeles Times, 2020 --
In defense of death, Population and Development Review 2010 --
I was poor, but I was happy, The Guardian, 2014 --
Friendship Agonistes, Prospect, 2011 --
I'll neve put up with life in a care home and other lies we tell ourselves, The Observer, 2021 --
Just because we've been OK doesn't mean we'll stay that way, Ramsay Centre Virtual Address, 2020 --
Catastrophizing is my idea of a good time, The spectato, 2018 --
The nobody at Cannes, Standpoint, 2011 --
Semantic Drift, Harper's Magazine, 2019.