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Book reviews

‘How our love of pets grew from a clash of world views’, review of Marcy Norton’s The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals since 1492 (Harvard UP, 2024), in Nature.

‘The end of the great auk’, review of Gísli Pálsson’s The Last of its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction (Princeton UP, 2024), in the Times Literary Supplement.

Essays

‘Here be Black Holes’ in Aeon Magazine (2020).

‘Cetacean Fight-Scene’, in A Field Guide to Curiosity: A Mark Dion Project (V&A / Mellon, 2019), pp. 48-9.

Blog posts

Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London, The Collation Blog, Folger Library.

Re-Inventing the Human in the Age of Exploration, Fifteen Eighty-Four Blog, Cambridge University Press.

Interviews

‘What I’m Reading: An Interview with Cultural Historian Surekha Davies’, History News Network, with Erik Moshe (2019).