Recent

On Your Front – Paperboy Issue Nine [print only]

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's Your Name Here – Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 007 [print only]

Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House – Kismet

The Way Down – Paperboy Issue Eight [print only]

Chris DeVille's Such Great Heights – Southwest Review

The Clearing by Wolf Alice – Pitchfork

On Vigdis Hjorth – European Review of Books

Connectedly Different – Cleveland Review of Books

Waxahatchee profile – Port

You can find more of my writing for Port here

2022

Interview with Kathryn Scanlan – The White Review

2021

Review of 'Greenland' – The Drift

2020

Revisiting Songs – Substack

Marriage Story's Soundtrack – Substack

2019

My Chemical Romance and Masculinity – GEN

Earlier

Review of Diet Cig and The Spook School at Moth Club – Pi Media

Review of St Vincent at O2 Academy Brixton – Pi Media

You can email me at samir [at] samir [dot] help. I’m also, regrettably, on substack and bluesky.

The painting in the background is Outward by Altoon Sultan.