Berlin Review • 27th March 2025

Stalking Kin

Despite being a reliable source of harm and harassment, the nuclear family has not yet seen its own #MeToo moment. Are families everywhere, even in Norway, doomed to endless Repetition, as Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel suggests? Or is there a way to to work through the ghosts of our genes?

HeadStuff • 10th January 2025

Return of the Repressed | The Real Horror of Robert Eggers' Nosferatu

Oscar Wilde once said, “A burnt child loves the fire.” And trauma, much like the horror genre, often exerts a paradoxical pull that both repulses and fascinates.

HeadStuff • 17th January 2023

Aftersun: grief, memories, and the fragile fabric of human life

Aftersun is a touching directorial debut by Charlotte Wells, set in the late 1990s. It follows 11-year-old Sophie and her young father, Calum to a Turkish resort. Calum and Sophie’s mother are divorced, and he does not live in his hometown Glasgow anymore, so Calum rarely gets to see Sophie.

28th October 2022

Para Journal, Issue Two

Personal Essay; Title: Too much Privilege and Conserved Beans

13th September 2022

Lassitude Zine, Issue One

Personal Essay. Title: Depression as a lack of Language
Type: Print

Dear Movies • 8th April 2021

Dear Movies Zine, Issue Six: Dreams

Personal Essay/Movie Review titled "Melfi's Dreams"

The New York Times • 23rd June 2020

Tiny Love Stories: “I Googled ‘Crisis’”

My 100-word creative nonfiction mini text with the title "A Crossroad For Us and The World" for the NYT Modern Love Column.

World Literature Today • 23rd April 2020

Normal People in Love: Sally Rooney’s Ordinary Universal Characters

Natalia Lomaia reviews Sally Rooney's novel Normal People for World Literature Today, “a meticulous observation, or even a study, of how one human being can have immense, intense power over another"