a FEW SELECTED ESSAYS (others available online)

On the metaverse, mass surveillance and the novels that predicted our present, Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/10/mass-surveillance-the-metaverse-making-america-great-again-the-novelists-who-predicted-our-present

On Games in Fiction, New Statesman 

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/01/chess-is-fictions-favourite-metaphor

On Camus, Literary Review  

https://literaryreview.co.uk/inside-the-outsider

On The Robots of Milton Keynes, New York Mag  

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/robots-taking-over-milton-keynes-uk.html

On the Imagination, TLS  

https://www.the-tls.com/science-technology/sciences/the-shape-of-things-unseen-adam-zeman-book-review-joanna-kavenna

On Interruptions, Literary Review  

https://literaryreview.co.uk/do-not-disturb

Interrupted Again, the Paris Review  

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/06/07/interrupted-again/

On Munch, Apollo  

https://apollo-magazine.com/fjord-focus-how-ibsen-inspired-the-art-of-edvard-munch/

On J G Ballard, Literary Review  

https://literaryreview.co.uk/unlimited-dream-company

On Shoshana Zuboff, Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy

With Jana Prikryl, LitHub

https://lithub.com/on-reconfiguring-the-modernist-flaneur-and-writing-in-a-post-truth-age/

With Peter Pomerantsev, Granta

https://granta.com/joanna-kavenna-and-peter-pomerantsev-in-conversation/

On surveillance, the Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/02/from-the-handmaids-tale-to-facebooks-secrets-best-books-on-surveillance

Things Fall Apart, the New Yorker 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/03/things-fall-apart

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Rooms, Granta 

https://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Rooms-that-have-had-their-part

Pseudonymously Yours, The New Yorker 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/07/11/pseudonymously-yours

SELECTED SHORT FICTION

‘Les Alyscamps’ Inscription

https://inscriptionjournal.com/

‘Notes on the Future’ Fictionable 

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna/

‘The Society of Lost Things’ Bomb Magazine

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/09/16/the-society-of-lost-things-joanna-kavenna/

‘The Beautiful Salmon’ Paris Review

https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8253/the-beautiful-salmon-joanna-kavenna

‘Otternes’ Zoetrope

https://www.all-story.com/tag/joanna-kavenna/ 

‘Lost’ Literary Hub

https://lithub.com/lost-joanna-kavenna-on-walking-the-grande-randonnee/

‘The Perfect Companion’ Granta 

https://granta.com/the-perfect-companion/

‘World Peace’ Esquire 

https://gb.readly.com/magazines/esquire-uk/2023-02-09/63de2d1dc4fd180d67b3dce8?srsltid=AfmBOoo2yMG1EV7QukoAr2IZSIiQ2PdLrGdElRFC11KHMb5p2brTz-L1

‘Beetle’ Granta 

https://granta.com/beetle/

‘Barthelme’ Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/19/barthelme-joanna-kavenna-story