Work
Book:
‘The Last Words of Rowan Du Preez: Murder and Conspiracy on the Cape Flats’, Jonathan Ball, 2018
Short(er) non-fiction:
Criminal justice X Ecological crisis
‘The Birth and Rise of Ecocide’, Delacorte Review, 2023
‘Fortress conservation’, London Review of Books, 2022
‘Excellent Baddie Territory’, adda / Commonwealth Writers, 2019
On the ecological crisis (incl climate)
‘The Forests in Palawan’, London Review of Books, 2022
‘POGOs and pangolins’, London Review of Books, 2022
‘The Genius of Retreat’, Popula, 2021
‘All-in on the triple red-hot ultra-stack dragon’, Popula, 2019
‘A world more full of life’, Popula, 2020
On criminal justice and its discontents
‘Living as ghosts do’, chapter in ‘The End of Story: writing about death’ edited by Bongani Kona, 2021
‘South Africa’s Police Problem’, London Review of Books, 2020
‘Concealed by God’, Prufrock, 2017
‘Crime in South Africa’, Africa’s a Country, 2017
‘Lance’s Last Stand’, adda / Commonwealth Writers, 2016
‘The Life and Death of Rowan Du Preez’, chapter in Safe House: Explorations in Creative Non-Fiction, edited by Ellah Allfrey, 2016
‘On Patrol in Khayelitsa’, Prufrock, 2014
Political institutions: thriving, failing and flailing
‘The tragedy of the ANC’s collapse’, The New Stateman, 2024
‘Mozambique’s ghosts’, London Review of Books, 2019
Desiderata:
On ‘La Face B’, The Drift, 2022
On ‘Thispersondoesnotexist’, The Drift, 2022
“I used to miss the ocean…”, The Guardian, 2021
‘Fire on Table Mountain’, London Review of Books, 2020
‘Siya Kolisi’s spell’, Popula, 2019
Fiction
‘Water Birth’, Wasafiri, 2021
‘The Biographers’, Liar’s League, 2015
‘Jesse’, Prufrock, 2014
Editorial
2017 - 2019, nonfiction editor of Prufrock, a South African literary magazine that featured several award-winning writers.
Column
‘Trafficked animal of the week’, a column about how we value the natural world (or fail to), Popula, 2020-2021
Radio/podcast
‘The Devil’s in the Details’, documentary radio show about London’s open-air street markets, on NTS Radio, London, 2011
Workshops
Crit, a workshop in prose writing run by Tony Tulathimutte, based in Brooklyn but attended virtually, 2021
‘Under the Volcano’, Investigative Journalism Workshop taught by David Barstow, Tzepotzlan, Mexico, 2018
Grants
Miles Morland Award for African Writers