Nicholas Barrett is a journalist who works at the Economist. His work has also appeared in The Financial Times, The New European, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair Italia.

Nicholas Barrett

Social media is a kind of refuge. It’s a refuge from dealing with the more enlivening conflicts within one’s real life.

Nicholas Barrett·21st December 2018

In his 2016 biography of Sigmund Freud, Adam Phillips describes the development of psychoanalysis as an attempt by...

Number 48 | Glitches Reportage

Back Issues

Summer 23

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Interviews

Two Continents Back to Back

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’

Fiction

For the Sake of Dangling Boys

Shalash Speaks . . .

It’s Me

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Who is Shalash the Iraqi?

Forgotten Traces

Mud

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Three Poems

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She’s on the Ching Again

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On Art, Walking With Our Sisters and the Problem with Reconciliation

Sinatra Sang in Sentences

An Album Can Last a Day

Nicholas Barrett

Social media is a kind of refuge. It’s a refuge from dealing with the more enlivening conflicts within one’s real life.

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