Selected reporting & essays
Against productivity — FT Weekend, September 2026
Is there such a thing as dangerous art? — FT Weekend, April 2026
On Víkingur Olafsson — FT Weekend, November 2025
On Kandinsky and music — FT Weekend, October 2025
No polls, no machines, just hands in the air—here’s how one Swiss town votes — National Geographic, June 2025
What does music gain from or lose to technology? — FT Weekend, April 2025
A summer of hope and despair in Tbilisi — The New Yorker, August 2024
The artist holding valuable art hostage to protect Julian Assange — The New Yorker, February 2024
What the wunderalten know: how age affects creativity — FT Magazine, January 2024
Russian art in the age of Putin — Coda Story, February 2023
The mountain doctor of Tusheti — National Geographic, March 2022
The woman keeping Georgia's ancient horse migration alive — RFERL, November 2022
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
On Blackness in classical music history — The TLS, November 2021
All work
FT — here
The New Yorker — here
National Geographic — here
The Economist — here
Guardian — here
Times Literary Supplement — here
Tank Magazine — here
Coda Story — here
RFERL — here