I have written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Statesman, ArtReview, The Outline, and the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. This is just a selection out of several hundred published pieces (the better stuff, the longer stuff, the more popular stuff, the first things that came to mind).
Some pieces for the Financial Times
‘Why do kids love dinosaurs so much?’ March 2023
‘How ‘The Simpsons’ became a shared language’ August 2022
‘Why we changed our daughter’s name’ May 2022
From ArtReview
On Vermeer March 2023
On DALL-E Mini July 2022
‘Let Toddlers Destroy Art’ June 2022
From The Outline (RIP)
My contributer profile (especially fond of the pieces on the Wife Guy, and Dril).
From the New York Times
‘Why, Despite Everything, You Should Have Kids (If You Want Them)’ April 2021
‘Hell is Other Britons’ June 2016
Some other pieces
‘I Hate Keir Starmer’, Gawker August 2022 (later adapted for radio by Alexei Sayle!)
‘The Ghosts of Our Lives’, New Statesman July 2019
‘The God in the Machine’, The Baffler March 2017
On ‘Cupcake Fascism’, The Guardian April 2014 (the culmination of my youthful obsession with somehow managing to get a piece about why cupcakes are fascist published in The Guardian…)
Tom Whyman 