Books
Raphael Samuel, Workshop of the World: Essays in People's History, edited and introduced by John Merrick, Verso.

2024
On HS2 and regional inequality – New Statesman
On publishing, and why there are so many boring novels – New Humanist
On the new British right – New Statesman
On leaving home – Guardian

2023
On Alan Garner – The Point
On Nothern modernism – Jacobin

2022
On Terry Eagleton – Baffler

On the Royal Family, again (German translation) – Jacobin

On Barry Hines and nature writing – Baffler

On Orbán and Hungarian conservatism – The Fence, issue 11

On Hamid Ismailov – NLR Sidecar

On Our Friends in the North  - Guardian

2021

On home, exile, and the impossibility of working-class achievement – Soft Punk

On the afterlife of the enclosures and the politics of nineteenth-century realism – Baffler

The novels of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Tribune

On care work and deindustrialisation – Baffler

On culture and class: a postmortem of the 20th-century democratisation of art - Soft Punk

On Down and Out in England and Italy by Alberto Prunetti (Spanish translation) - Jacobin

On the North - Jacobin

On the British royal family - Jacobin

On Michael Apted’s Up - Jacobin

On class, character and contemporary fiction – Tribune

2020

On David Edgerton’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation (Spanish translation) - New Left Review

On Mike Davis’s The Monster Enters - Jacobin

On plagues, progress and history – Boston Review

On care work, Crewe and the deindustrialised economy – Verso Books blog

On Crewe, deindustrialisation and green renewal – IPPR Progressive Review

2019

On why the arts must not become the preserve of the elite – New Statesman

On Alison Light’s A Radical Romance – the TLS

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