From the Book - First edition.
The private sector. Women of letters talk for Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, Indonesia
Putting away childish things, sermon in Manchester, England, 2013
Terminal friendship, The Guardian, 2010
My teenage diary, The Guardian, 2015
The big story, Financial Times, 2013
Greg Shriver's Memorial Trivute, Durham, North Carolina, 2009
What did you do in the war, Mommy. Fiction and identity politics, Brisbane Writers Festival Opening Address, 2016
Liberals now defy the etymology of the word, The New York Times, 2016
Writers blocked, Prospect 2018
Cruel and unusual punishment, Harper's Magazine, 2019
Lefty lingo, Harper's Magazine, 2019
Confessions of an expat. Bye-bye Belfast, 1997
No exit, Harper's Magazine, 2019
Patrios, Harper's Magazine, 2019
Getting the blood running. Ode to the hacker, Prospect, 2011
London's unofficial Olympic sport, The Atlantic, 2012
Your gym routine is worthless, Unherd.com review-essay on Alison Bechdel's The secret to superhuman strength, 2021
Against the grain. I am not a kook, The New York Times, 2016
Ikea's real genius, The Spectator, 2018
Our institutions no longer understand what they are for, The Spectator, 2018
Dear WriteNow, The Spectator, 2018
He, she, and it, Prospect 2016
A monumental matter, The Spectator, 2017
Would you want London to be overrun by Americans like me, The Spectator, 2021
The criminalization of making money, New Criterion, 2010
Quote-unquote, The Wall Street Journal, 2008
Lionel Shriver is grateful for pandemic quarantine (No she isn't), Los Angeles Times, 2020
End papers. In defense of death, Population and Development Review 2010
I was poor, but I was happy, The Guardian, 2014
Friendship Agonistes, Prospect, 2011
I'll neve put up with life in a care home and other lies we tell ourselves, The Observer, 2021
Just because we've been OK doesn't mean we'll stay that way, Ramsay Centre Virtual Address, 2020
Catastrophizing is my idea of a good time, The spectato, 2018
The nobody at Cannes, Standpoint, 2011
Semantic Drift, Harper's Magazine, 2019.
