Writing for NYT, The Guardian, Monocle & The Spectator on arts, culture & more. Formerly reporting from Beijing & Sydney. Find me on air @Monocle24
New York, New York
Joined October 2011
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
This is a masterpiece. A must read for anyone with the faintest interest in China, also America's relationship with China, and the whole question of empire in the contemporary world.
Barnes & Noble has a 25% off sale through tomorrow for book pre-orders for members. This is a chance to get my new book, At the Edge of Empire. It's an epic work of memoir and reportage spanning 80 years, from my father in Mao's army to China's rise today: barnesandnoble.com/w/at-the-…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
I wrote about Sara Petersen's high-level momfluencing for @thebafflermag (always good to work with Jess Bergman) and I quoted @cmontefiore, @k_pendergrast, @kjezermorton, @kait_tiffany, @alvagotby, @sophiehbishop, & @brookeerinduffy; art by Lillian Ansell. thebaffler.com/latest/the-go…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
NP 'Intelligence' is out now, with pieces/interviews/artwork by @TomChatfield @marinab52 @philosophybites @myishacherry @patstokes @cmontefiore @StudioCarreras @Russel_Herneman @pabloauladell @plunkert, Antonia Case, André Dao, Mariana Alessandri, Howard Gardner, Zan Boag.
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
"The loveliest pieces are deceptively simple." @cmontefiore for @TheSpectator
Georgia O’Keeffe wants you to take your time thespectator.com/book-and-ar…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
This is closing weekend of Last Room, a play I wrote inspired by @Bourdain. We sold out every show. The cast was incredible, the audiences generous and engaged. It's been the most rewarding creative experience of my life. Huge thanks to all involved lastroomplay.com/
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
Lovely interview by @cmontefiore of pet portraitist and West Village icon Mimi Vang Olsen
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
Students at Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri, walked out of class on Tuesday to march for Ralph Yarl, their Black classmate who was shot twice on Thursday by an 84-year-old white man after going to the wrong address to pick up his brothers.
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
INT. OFFICE - MARCH 2022
Dave (talking to self): Oh wow, this guy is amazing. It says here he’s the “living Sherlock Holmes.”
Narrator (VO): He wasn’t.
My latest for @NYMag
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
Defending parental rights isn't enough. Children should not be cashed in on.
"We’re seeing the problems of child actors amplified because... it’s not a kid portraying a character, it’s a kid’s actual life being exposed for entertainment." @cmontefiore aeon.co/essays/why-arent-chi…
"Momfluencers aren’t offering what they purport to offer: an idyllic family, attainable for everyone. They’re airbrushing their lives to fit consumerist ideals, and co-opting their children as props in order to sell, and receive, material goods" aeon.co/essays/why-arent-chi…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
we love cult stories, probably bc on some level we know what to expect. but this latest
@gauveyherbert joint is unlike any other. it's much, much more unnerving: esquire.com/news-politics/a4…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
What is love?
The new edition of NP is out now, with pieces from DBC Pierre, John Armstrong, Mariana Alessandri, André Dao @cmontefiore @patstokes @marinab52 @TomChatfield @carriejenkins @matthewtbeard + interviews with Susan Wolf & @wkeithcampbell.
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
The 'Identity' edition is out now with articles by @philosophybites @marinab52 @oliverburkeman @myishacherry @TomChatfield @cmontefiore @patstokes @ockhamsbeard DBC Pierre, André Dao, Mariana Alessandri. Interviews with Kate Eichhorn & Eric Olson.
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
INT. BOYS LOCKER ROOM - 1995
ME: What'd you do last summer?
MIKE (awkward): I went to Camp Shane.
ME: What's that?
MIKE: It’s…One night we raided the kitchen, mixed flour with water, and ate the paste.
ME: 😯
26 years on, my latest for @BW
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
'The prison looked and felt like the scene of a horror movie about a perverse site for human experimentation; a floodlit laboratory in the middle of nowhere.' Thank you @cmontefiore for this piece on @GuardianAus bit.ly/36bXLlG
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
'Energy' is out now - pieces by DBC Pierre, @myishacherry @philosophybites @marinab52 @TomChatfield @cmontefiore @patstokes @ockhamsbeard André Dao & Tim Olds + interviews w/ @jimalkhalili @casparhenderson. Artwork by @studiopatten @StudioCarreras @alvarotapiah @Russel_Herneman
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
INT. BASEBALL HEAVEN
Plastic trophies everywhere.
MANAGER: We followed any court orders we got.
ME: Yeah, but what *happened*?
His eyes narrow.
MANAGER: Whatever happened between those two guys happened between those two guys.
My latest @esquire
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
INT. BATHROOM - DAY
Richard Couto, horse meat vigilante, trims his wig disguise.
ME (V/O): His paranoia was actually quite justified.
COUTO: All these mofos know who I am, and what I look like, and they don't like me.
Mini doc for my latest piece @BW
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Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
INT. BAR - NIGHT
FRIEND: Thieves are stealing pet horses in South Florida.
ME (laughing): For what, pony rides?
Friend shakes his head slowly.
ME: 😲
My latest for @BW
bloomberg.com/features/2021-…
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore retweeted
New New Philosopher out this week. This time we dive into "Space", with pieces by DBC Pierre, @philosophybites @cmontefiore @TomChatfield @marinab52 @patstokes @oliverburkeman @ockhamsbeard; i/views with @SustainHistory, Günther Hasinger (Head of the @esa Centre), Gerry Gilmore.
