Imogen West-Knights
@imogenwk.bsky.social
Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, out now. I don't like this any more than you do
My first piece for the new Observer is out in print this weekend, or you can read it now, here! About an academy for butlers in the Netherlands observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Meet the 21st-century butlers training for a life in service | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My first piece for the new Observer is out in print this weekend, or you can read it now, here! About an academy for butlers in the Netherlands observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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For years, I’ve been enjoying bad shows, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social. But now, one show has come along to make me reconsider what ‘bad’ even means—Kim Kardashian’s ‘All’s Fair’.
I have finally discovered truly terrible TV
For years, I’ve been enjoying bad shows. But now, one show has come along to make me reconsider what “bad” even means…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
For years, I’ve been enjoying bad shows, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social. But now, one show has come along to make me reconsider what ‘bad’ even means—Kim Kardashian’s ‘All’s Fair’.
I wrote about shrimp and also my sweet dog who died recently. may you also find love in an unlikely place slate.com/life/2025/11...
To You, They’re Dinner. To Me, They’re the Perfect Pets.
My beloved new friends have brains the size of a grain of sand.
slate.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I wrote about shrimp and also my sweet dog who died recently. may you also find love in an unlikely place slate.com/life/2025/11...
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Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
The Guardian Long Read
A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25
guardianbookshop.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
the very beautiful second volume of the Guardian Long Read magazine is out now! featuring my piece on a chimpanzee escape from a Swedish zoo. get a copy! guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
The Guardian Long Read
A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25
guardianbookshop.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
the very beautiful second volume of the Guardian Long Read magazine is out now! featuring my piece on a chimpanzee escape from a Swedish zoo. get a copy! guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
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went to some virtual reality Titanic “experiences” for FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/9131...
Why does the sinking of the Titanic still captivate us so?
Virtual-reality experiences invite participants to feel what it was like to actually be on the ship
www.ft.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
went to some virtual reality Titanic “experiences” for FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/9131...
went to some virtual reality Titanic “experiences” for FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/9131...
Why does the sinking of the Titanic still captivate us so?
Virtual-reality experiences invite participants to feel what it was like to actually be on the ship
www.ft.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
went to some virtual reality Titanic “experiences” for FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/9131...
I spoke to six people across the income spectrum in the UK about how money does and doesn't work for them for the new issue of British GQ www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/six-...
Six ordinary people speak candidly about the cost of living in Britain
It might be the last taboo in Britain: money. Who hasn’t got enough. Who has too much. Who is paying (or isn’t) and for what. So, we assembled a handful of Brits from different income brackets – from ...
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I spoke to six people across the income spectrum in the UK about how money does and doesn't work for them for the new issue of British GQ www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/six-...
unexpected and very nice to have a piece I wrote for the dial about baseball last year selected for this anthology! ⚾
the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
unexpected and very nice to have a piece I wrote for the dial about baseball last year selected for this anthology! ⚾
the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Finnish tourist board claim that they can teach you how to be happy. I wrote about their attempt to make me as happy as the happiest people on earth for Slate, and you can read it here if you like slate.com/life/2025/08...
It’s the Happiest Country in the World. I Spent a Week There. I Wish I Could Unlearn Its Secret.
The truth is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.
slate.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Finnish tourist board claim that they can teach you how to be happy. I wrote about their attempt to make me as happy as the happiest people on earth for Slate, and you can read it here if you like slate.com/life/2025/08...
indulged in a little “old man yells at cloud” ranting in the guardian today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it – and I’ll tell you why | Imogen West-Knights
It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that, says writer Imogen West-Knights
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
indulged in a little “old man yells at cloud” ranting in the guardian today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week’s FT Weekend magazine cover story is by me! About five days I spent last summer at a brain-hacking retreat in Washington www.ft.com/content/0bb8...
Inside the ‘neurohacking’ camp that promises worldly bliss in five days
Can you really gain 40 years of spiritual enlightenment in a week?
www.ft.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This week’s FT Weekend magazine cover story is by me! About five days I spent last summer at a brain-hacking retreat in Washington www.ft.com/content/0bb8...
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great @imogenwk.bsky.social piece on why it still feels off that Black Mirror has made "basement goblin" Charlie Brooker an international star.
The Netflix Show That Ruined Everyone’s Lives is Back. Not Enough People Know Who Made It.
He's a household name of a very different sort in Britain.
slate.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
great @imogenwk.bsky.social piece on why it still feels off that Black Mirror has made "basement goblin" Charlie Brooker an international star.
another blinder of a day for the forces of evil that periodically try to make me learn how the stock markets work. my stupidity will prevail. you will not make me read that
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
another blinder of a day for the forces of evil that periodically try to make me learn how the stock markets work. my stupidity will prevail. you will not make me read that
wrote about a beloved hobby of mine slate.com/culture/2025...
The British Figured Out the Perfect Kind of Crossword. Where You At, Americans?
How to get started with cryptic crosswords, the most rewarding kind of puzzle.
slate.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
wrote about a beloved hobby of mine slate.com/culture/2025...
really missing twitter today x
"My event is the only one that fucks. Believe me, those bathrooms have seen a lot.”
Reading series have become the capital's most in-demand tickets. Are they making London's literary scene sexy again?
www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-londo...
Reading series have become the capital's most in-demand tickets. Are they making London's literary scene sexy again?
www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-londo...
"My event is the only one that fucks": inside London's hot new literary scenes
Reading series have become the capital's most in-demand tickets. Is literature sexy again?
www.the-londoner.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
really missing twitter today x
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There’s still another season for Severance’s showrunners to throw it all away, Lost-style. But I feel cautiously confident that they won’t, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Severance and the art of the mystery reveal
How do you balance the setting-up of questions with the provision of answers? Some shows get it very right—and some disastrously wrong
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There’s still another season for Severance’s showrunners to throw it all away, Lost-style. But I feel cautiously confident that they won’t, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Out today in FT Weekend, a piece about a couple of days I spent at a centre for hobo culture in California last summer, and railroad riding in general www.ft.com/content/b7f8...
Life on the tracks: hanging with America’s hobos
Their heyday may have been 100 years ago, but hobos are still riding freight trains to get around today
www.ft.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Out today in FT Weekend, a piece about a couple of days I spent at a centre for hobo culture in California last summer, and railroad riding in general www.ft.com/content/b7f8...
i am now in greenland, for it is turning out to be… an unspecified length of time. if you’re interested in greenland i am documenting it on instagram! find me there if you like!
Very very very excited that I will be in Greenland for work soon. Have you by any chance been to Greenland? Anything amazing you did in Nuuk or Ilulissat that I should also do?
February 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
i am now in greenland, for it is turning out to be… an unspecified length of time. if you’re interested in greenland i am documenting it on instagram! find me there if you like!
had fun trying to work through some hard feelings about paddington bear for Slate slate.com/culture/2025...
You Might Think Paddington Bear Is Cute and Cuddly. Some Brits Know Better.
He was a beloved hero with a boopable nose—then it all changed.
slate.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
had fun trying to work through some hard feelings about paddington bear for Slate slate.com/culture/2025...
get your dirt on all things blurb here slate.com/culture/2025...
One of Literature’s Most Ancient Traditions Is Under Threat. Authors Are Thrilled.
“I was really horrified the first time someone said I should just make something up for them to approve,” one author raves.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
get your dirt on all things blurb here slate.com/culture/2025...
Very very very excited that I will be in Greenland for work soon. Have you by any chance been to Greenland? Anything amazing you did in Nuuk or Ilulissat that I should also do?
February 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Very very very excited that I will be in Greenland for work soon. Have you by any chance been to Greenland? Anything amazing you did in Nuuk or Ilulissat that I should also do?
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On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x
On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x
2025 is my year for sucking at stuff. i am going to weight lifting classes and learning to play guitar. i suck really bad at both these things. i experience complete ego death once, if not twice a day. it absolutely rules
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
2025 is my year for sucking at stuff. i am going to weight lifting classes and learning to play guitar. i suck really bad at both these things. i experience complete ego death once, if not twice a day. it absolutely rules