Selected writing
Essays
What the wunderalten know: how age affects creativity — FT Magazine, January 2024
Repression regains a foothold at the Writer’s House in Tbilisi — Financial Times, September 2023
Russian art in the age of Putin — Coda Story, February 2023
In praise of amateurism — a pianists’s story — FT Weekend, December 2022
Diary from Tbilisi: ‘Most of us feel this is Georgia’s war too’ — FT Weekend, September 2022
Red Star: Artist Alia Ali’s Yemeni Futurism — Art Review, May 2021
City of Golden Temples — Tank Magazine, December 2020
Features
The artist holding valuable art hostage to protect Julian Assange — The New Yorker, February 2024
How Georgians came together to fight a Russian-inspired law — FT Magazine, April 2023
The mountain doctor of Tusheti — National Geographic, March 2022
Tourism rescues Omalo, Georgia, from oblivion — The Guardian, November 2021
Criticism
On Tom Parfitt’s ‘High Caucasus’ — FT Weekend, July 2023
On Rachmaninoff and exile — FT Weekend, June 2023
On Handel’s opera ‘Alcina’ — The TLS, July 2022
On ‘eight songs from isolation’, a lockdown opera — The Economist, October 2020
On the ‘forever war’: the untold story of Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan — The Calvert Journal, November 2011