Journalism
My name is James Riding and I'm a journalist. I studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford and have contributed pieces to Literary Review, The London Magazine and Review 31.
Below is a selection of my writing.
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Murder, They Spoke - July 2020
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On Deaf Ears - April 2020
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What Lies Beneath - December 2019
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One Little Room An Everywhere - June 2020
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Essay | The Flood Leads on to Fortune - October 2020
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Essay | Books That Changed My Life: ‘Tales from Ovid’ - 14th August 2020
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Interview | James Shapiro on cinematic storytelling and ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America’ - 4th August 2020
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Interview | A. Naji Bakhti on ‘Between Beirut and the Moon’, inheritance and coming of age in Lebanon - 31st July 2020
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Interview | Ra Page on Stories of Uprising and Protest in the Age of Coronavirus - 1st May 2020
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Review | Wing - 29th April 2020
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Interview | Sam Riviere on Martial, Authenticity and Stealing - 6th April 2020
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Review | Vital Stream - 11th March 2020
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Interview | Joo Yeon Park on Beckett, Failure and 'the Unword' - 28th Feb 2020
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My long read 'The Flood Leads on to Fortune' in The London Magazine (October 2020)
Research
In 2019, I assisted A. N. Wilson with research and fact-checking for his book The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2020).
