Communing with Wizards in Myanmar
When I came back to Myanmar seven months ago, I decided to dedicate myself to improving my language skills. When friends asked me why I wanted to improve my Burmese, I told…
Stealing With the Eyes in the TLS
Stealing With the Eyes has just been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by poet, musicologist and Balinese gamelan expert Kate Wakeling. If you are a subscriber, you can find the…
Mit den Augen stehlen: Kosmopolis 35
I’m delighted to have a piece out in German in the forthcoming Kosmopolis 35 – Interkulturelle Zeitschrift aus Berlin. It is an essay about my book Stealing With the Eyes. The…
Interview with Faisal Oddang for the British Council
Whilst in Indonesia, the British Council asked me to do an online interview with the remarkably energetic and prolific Faisal Oddang — one of Indonesia’s most exciting young writers. The interview can…
Interview in Manusia Magazine
One of the biggest delights of being in Bali at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2018 was talking to Rudolf Gilmore Perez from Manusia Magazine. It was an…
“Hello, Stranger” to be published by Granta
I’m very pleased to announce that Granta have acquired my forthcoming non-fiction book, Hello, Stranger, an exploration of how welcoming strangers into our lives and worlds may make the world…
Ethical Leadership and Deforestation-as-metaphor
Over the next few months, I’m going to be working on co-developing and writing a textbook on ethical leadership for Mote Oo Education. I’ll be be working with my Wind&Bones…
Ethics and Writing
We spent our final afternoon at the book festival in Ubud yesterday with a diverse group of writers talking about questions of ethics. I’ve been interested in the relationship between…
Everywhere is Exotic, Everywhere is Mundane
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about travel-writing and anthropology, and about the obsession with exoticism that runs through both, in different but equally uneasy ways. Travel-writing often seeks to…
A Strange Collaboration
When the parcel eventually arrived containing my author copies of Snapshots of Museum Experience — the book on which I collaborated with my former partner, the late Elee Kirk — it…
