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I wrote about Al Pacino for The Guardian! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/20/sonny-boy-a-memoir-by-al-pacino-review-a-south-bronx-miracle

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I reviewed William Dalrymple's new book on ancient India for The Observer UK

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I wrote about Joyland for my latest Wayward Watching column.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/big-bitter-tears

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The latest installment of my Hazlitt film column is on writers, Pain and Glory and The Great Beauty.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/staying

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This week I wrote about sixteen prisoners of conscience in Modi's India for The Observer UK

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I wrote about Hari Kunzru's new novel, Blue Ruin, for The Observer UK.

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For the latest installment of my Hazlitt film column, I wrote about Past Lives and Perfect Days.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/impossibly-chaste

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This week I reviewed Neel Mukherjee's new novel, Choice, for The Observer UK

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I wrote a longish piece on Hisham Matar for Hazlitt.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/missing

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The latest installment of my Hazlitt film column is an essay on Martin Scorsese

https://hazlitt.net/feature/men-work

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I closed out 2023 with a piece on Cynthia Zarin's In Italy.

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The latest instalment of my Hazlitt film column is on funerals, Taste of Cherry and much else.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/risking-my-feelings

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I wrote about Teju Cole's new novel!

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A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Philippe Sands's The Last Colony for Air Mail

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Dream assignment! I was asked to review Zadie Smith's new novel, The Fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/27/the-by-zadie-smith-review-a-trial-and-no-errors

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My latest Wayward Watching column is on cameras, toys, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Agnès Varda and that grand ol' notion of artistic freedom.

https://hazlitt.net/feature/doing-ones-best

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This month’s Wayward Watching column is a film festival diary of sorts

https://hazlitt.net/feature/only-connect