Writing

Book:

Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 2015.

Essays:

‘Ancient Hate, New Remedies‘ (with Marc Mierowsky). Sydney Review of Books (October 2025).

‘Dropping out, burning out, tuning out‘. InsideStory (June 2025).

‘Welcome to the Word Factory‘. Sydney Review of Books (December 2024).

‘New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?’ The Conversation (November 2024).

‘Machine Voice: Programmer Fiction.’ Los Angeles Review of Books (July 2023).

‘AI and the future of Literary Studies.’ Sydney Review of Books (March 2023).

‘Sam Uffindell and the troubling legacy of boys’ schools‘. Stuff newspapers (2022).

‘The New Man’. Landfall 242 (2021): 10-19. Winner of the Landfall Essay Competition.

‘The New Zealand model and the present-future of the university‘. Overland (2021).

‘We need to fully understand the nature of the far-right to counter it‘. Stuff newspapers (2020).

‘White Supremacists on campus and the never-ending end of free speech.’ Overland (2019).

‘Lost Objects.’ Overland 226 (2017): 60-5.

‘Possession.’  Landfall 231 (2016): 171–6.

Chapter in book:

‘The New Man.’ Strong Words 3. Eds. Emma Neale and Lynley Edmeades. Otago: Otago University Press, 2023. 13-22.

‘Speech and Silence in the Public Sphere.’ The Interregnum. Ed. Morgan Godfery. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2016. 23-35. (Book details).

Book Review:

‘Not Letting Go.’ Review of Claudia Roth Pierpont’s Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (2013). Oxonian Review 25:1 (2014).