Selected reporting & essays

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 AssangeThe New Yorker, February 2024

What the wunderalten know: how age affects creativityFT Magazine, January 2024

Russian art in the age of PutinCoda 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 storyFT 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 FuturismArt Review, May 2021

On Blackness in classical music historyThe 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