Craig Taylor is the author of four books

To get in touch, send an email to my agent, Tracy Bohan.

Wylie Agency
17 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3JA
250 West 57th Street, Suite 2114, New York, NY 10107

New Yorkers publicity
US Elizabeth Riley, Norton
UK Yassine Belkacemi, John Murray
CDN Ruta Liormonas, Doubleday

One Million Tiny Plays performance requests
UK Jennifer Bernstein, Wylie Agency

Bookshop US
Bookshop UK

I also review books for the New York Times Book Review:

• Ecstasy and Terror by Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Patch by John McPhee
• A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
• The World to Come by Jim Shepard
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Blue Guitar by John Banville
• All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer

My first cover story for the New York Times Magazine appeared in March 2012. I commented on the changing social makeup of London during its Olympic year. I’ve written many other articles for the Times, including a piece on a skyscraper escape device, an interview with a human shield in Iraq, and, going back to 2001, an interview with an ethical video game developer.

I was an editor of Five Dials, a magazine published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, from 2008 to 2023.

Five Dials featured new fiction, poetry, illustrations, reportage, long interviews, very short interviews, dispatches from London and abroad, ads, ads that didn’t look like ads, and archival work culled from the Hamish Hamilton backlist and, sometimes, the deep Penguin archives.

Over the years, we published writing from Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Lydia Davis, Geoff Dyer, Don DeLillo, Harry Shearer, Paul Farley, Javier Marias, Deborah Levy, and Susan Sontag.

To break out of the solitary act of reading, we launched our magazine at venues around the world, from Montreal to Brooklyn, Paris, Jaipur, Sydney, the Staten Island ferry, a room at a college in Oxford, a music hall in east London, and even beneath a blue spruce in the middle of winter. A vast array of people pressed send, from Chinese dissidents to pop stars to janitors who could have been pop stars.

Read more about the project at the Five Dials website.