Articles and Essays

On Horses

For Perspective: Metamorphosis, on the story of a woman who changed into a horse.

For The Atlantic's Object Lessons blog: The Troubled History of Horsemeat in America.

For Zoomorphic: Athletes or Anarchists? How the misunderstanding between humans and horses makes their domestication possible.

For Literary Hub, How Byron Invented the Wild Horse.

For the New York Times' Menagerie blog: talking to horses through riding, learning to ride all over again, Tav and Sasa.

For NPR's The Salt: Mare's Milk For Health? Europeans Look To Horses For Ancient Remedy.

For Atlas Obscura: The Hidden History of Bathing in Soup Broth.

For Nowhere Magazine: Horse-race Politics. A long read on Siena's Palio; a finalist in Nowhere's Fall 2017 travel writing contest.

For Culturised: Just Horse Play? "Ex Anima" by Théâtre Équestre Zingaro.

For Spiegel Online: the 2013 Horse Meat Scandal.

For the Telegraph: the history of hippophagy, sidesaddle, and pony books. En Français: a translation of the history of hippophagy piece in Courrier International.

On Horse People

For Paris Review Daily, the Écuyères Series on the horsewomen of the nineteenth-century Paris circus: Selika Lazevski, Sarah the African, my obsession with researching these women, Jenny de Rahden, the Baudelarian Horsewoman, Céleste Mogador and Émilie Loisset.

On Medium: Paula Sykes: Pioneering Woman Groom in International Showjumping.

Book Reviews and Miscellaney

For Long Reads: A Murder in Berlin.

For Perspective: Letter from Elsewhere – Scandi noir but nice, Lund, Sweden, Supermarket Swede, and reviews of Beastly by Keggie Carew and Thunderclap by Laura Cumming.

For the Literary Review: Hanging Up Our Spurs, a review of Ulrich Raulff's Farewell to the Horse.

For History Today: a review of Precarious Partners by Kari Weil.

On Medium: Liberating Diana – how a Danish artist seeks to commemorate a wayward princess.

For the Telegraph: a review of a new edition of Pippi Longstocking.

For Gridskipper.com: ramblings on and around Berlin, ditto Momondo.com.

For the Scotsman: on Joyce Carole Oates' Rape: A Love Story.

For the New Statesman: on Jonny Trunk's Dirty Fan Mail: a life in rude letters.

For the Guardian: the other big "C", being a drag queen, erotica for women and wife auditions.