- What a Prize Actually Selects For
The flagship argumentative essay: examining the gap between what prizes claim to reward and what the patterns of selection reveal — drawing on the structure of jury deliberation, eligibility rules, and the prizes' own stated criteria.
- How a Jury Reads
A walk-through of the practical mechanics of prize reading — how jurors manage the volume, what the deliberation process looks like from the inside, and how consensus forms under time pressure.
- The Long List as Its Own Verdict
An argument that the longlist has become a distinct cultural instrument — conferring attention and commercial benefit independently of the shortlist — and that this has quietly changed what prizes are for.
- Prix and Prize Are Not the Same Thing
A comparison of the French and Anglophone prize ecosystems — different jury structures, different relationships to the market, and the ways in which each shapes the kind of book that gets written toward it.
- After the Announcement
A short piece on what happens to a book in the weeks immediately following a prize win — the logistics of a reprint, the second wave of reviews, and the ceiling on how far the effect actually reaches.