Non Fiction
Articles/Essays
Favourites
The Library of Doris Lessing, The Guardian, 11/2/2017.
Pynchon in Poland n+1 5/8/2010
The Death of Old Kashgar, Unmapped, 17/1/14
The Art of Escape LA Review of Books 3/3/13
A Perfect Bomb n+1, October 2010
Comfortable living in the City of the Dead | Egypt Independent
Jumping the Dragon Gate, LA Review of Books 30/8/12
‘This Doctor Says He Can Cure Heroin Addicts By Putting Them in a Coma‘, VICE, 19/2/14
China
Long march towards cultural genocide Index on Censorship Winter 2020
Boycott Mulan LRB Blog 11/9/20
Mosque destruction in Xinjiang Apollo magazine 16/5/19
Along the Ili River LRB Blog 3/4/19
‘One out of Eleven Uyghurs is in a Concentration Camp’ Zocalo Public Square 6/3/19
The arrest of Lu Guang Frieze Jan 2019
Where is Rahile Dawut? LRB Blog 16/8/18
Cambridge University Press and ‘Academic Freedom‘ LRB Blog 22/8/17
Piece on Chinese cities for The Guardian 20/3/17
The End of the One-Child Policy LRB Blog 3/11/15
Everyday Corruption LRB Blog 11/9/15
Interview with Ian Johnson of the New York Times 13/8/15
181 Terrorist Groups, LRB Blog 6/6/15
Utterly Vile: Ilham Tohti’s Life Sentence, Dissent Blog, 30/9/14
Are Militants from China’s Xinjiang Region Really Being Trained by the Islamic State?, Vice News 25/9/14
China needs to shift its agriculture from the water-scarce north, china dialogue 31/7/1
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘The Uyghurs’, Dissent, Summer 2014
China can’t follow the US on climate change, say experts, china dialogue 5/6/14
Tiananmen Square 25th Anniversary, Vice News, 3/6/14
Super fast bus systems are ‘the best hope’ for fixing China’s gridlock, china dialogue, 22/5/14
After Kunming, LRB Blog 5/3/14
Free Ilham Tohti, LRB Blog 28/2/14
How long till China is self-sufficient in recycled waste? chinadialogue 30/1/14
The Death of Old Kashgar, Unmapped, 17/1/14
Behind the Dunes, LRB Blog 16/1/14
The widening costs of China’s national smog problem, chinadialogue, 11/12/13
‘Terrorism’ in Tiananmen Square, LRB Blog, 8/11/13
An interview with Sean Gallagher: China’s environmental crisis, chinadialogue 2/10/13
‘The Silk Road of Pop’- a Q and A with the director at China File 25/9/13
‘The many trials of Mr Horse’, The Dublin Review, 52
‘Seeking Truth from Facts’ London Review of Books Blog 5/9/13
‘It’s not fair if you don’t let us cheat’ London Review of Books Blog 17/7/13
Learning the wrong lessons in Xinjiang, Dissent 3/7/13
Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan Desert LA Review of Books 16/5/13
Dead Pigs, Toxic Smog London Review of Books Blog 24/4/13
China’s policies in inner Mongolia The Independent 16/4/13
No Middle Way London Review of Books Blog 1/1/13
China’s Big Society London Review of Books Blog 11/9/12
Buttering the tiger, The Dublin Review 48, Autumn 2012
Jumping the Dragon Gate, LA Review of Books 30/8/12
Climate Change? LRB Blog 2/8/12
‘Great Changes after the Liberation’ LRB Blog 4/7/2012
Razing Kashgar London Review of Books Blog 25/5/2012
China dresses up one-child policy with softer slogans Times of India, 18/3/12
Ürümqi, Two Years On LRB Blog 20/6/11
A Look Back at the 2009 Xinjiang Riots The China Beat 31/5/11
Rabbits v. Tigers LRB Blog 31/1/2011
The Year in Review n+1, 30/12/2010
‘Love the motherland’ LRB Blog 7/12/2010
Pearl of the Western Region LRB Blog 11/11/201o
A Perfect Bomb n+1, October 2010
Recruitment Drive LRB Blog 20/8/2010
‘Burning Books’, The London Review of Books July 2010
Suspicious Timing LRB Blog 28/6/2010
After the Xinjiang Protests n+1, May 13th 2010
Stranded in Beijing LRB Blog 28/4/2010
The Bombmakers of Aksu LRB Blog 25/9/2009
Politically Dangerous LRB Blog 9/9/2009
‘In Urumqi’, London Review of Books July 2009
The city at the empire’s edge, Edinburgh Review, October 2008
Not China
The woman in the window Royal Literary Fund April 2022
In Search of Golden Chamberpots, Royal Literary Fund, June 2020
Kill Your Darlings, Royal Literary Fund, June 2019
Remember the Thylacine, LRB Blog, 30 November 2017
The Library of Doris Lessing, The Guardian, 11 Feb 2017.
‘W, or The Memory of Childhood’ in Literary Wonderlands, Nov 2016
Shelf Life, RLF Blog, October 2016
A Sixth Memo for this Millennium, The Dublin Review 59, Summer 2015
Blind Dating in Bishkek, The Dublin Review 56, Autumn 2014
How will Australia meet its carbon targets? china dialogue, 18/7/14
‘This Doctor Says He Can Cure Heroin Addicts By Putting Them in a Coma‘, VICE, 19/2/14
‘To tweet or not to tweet?‘, CITSEE.eu, 6/11/13
‘In Balykchy’, London Review of Books Blog 4/10/13
‘You can’t always blame zombies for their condition’: Utopian escapes in Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice‘ in Thomas Pynchon & the (de)vices of global (post)modernity, (2013) ed. Zofia Kolbuszewska
Gaming the News London Review of Books Blog 5/3/13
Immoral Holiday London Review of Books Blog 21/2/13
‘Artisans for incorporation’- An interview with Saskia Sassen CITSEE 21/12/12
‘The reassertion of the political’- an interview with Tariq Ali CITSEE.eu 6/9/12
Great Expectations? Creative Futures Blog 3/7/2013
Blockupy Frankfurt London Review of Books Blog 17/5/2012
Comfortable living in the City of the Dead | Egypt Independent
In Cairo LRB Blog 9/3/12
Testing for vCJD LRB Blog 20/1/12
The Yugosphere- A Useful Concept?- CITSEE Blog- 27/10/11
In Prague LRB Blog 17/10/11
Civil Marriage, Not Civil War LRB Blog 31/5/11
Beirut Graffiti LRB Blog 24/5/2011
Pynchon in Poland n+1 August 5th 2010
Discounts for Tories LRB Blog 20/7/2010
Coming to a Shelf Near You LRB Blog 14/1/2010
Nick Holdstock 
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