[1] Between 1996 and 2024, he taught in the English department at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was appointed Professor of Modern Literary Theory in 2010.
His 2013 book The Private Life was praised for its writing and ideas by The Guardian,[13] The Daily Telegraph[14] and The Observer,[15] while The Independent was more critical, considering it at times ‘dry and protracted’.
[24] Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing (Pluto Press,1998, 9780745312071) Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy, published by (Continuum, 2003, 9780826455512) How to Read Freud, (Granta, 2005, 9781862077638) The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark.
(Granta, 2013, 9781847085290); American edition, The Private Life: Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion (Counterpoint, 2014, 978161902497) Lament (with Bettina von Zwehl, accompanying text to artbook produced by von Zwehl for her Freud Museum exhibition) (Art/ Books, 2017, 9781908970275) Not Working: Why We Have to Stop (Granta, 2019, 9781783782062) How to Live.
What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life an Literature (Ebury, 2021, 9781785039805) Losers (Peninsula, 2021, 9781999922344) All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (Granta, 2024, 9781783789450)