Alex Moshakis

Hello, I’m a writer from the UK. My writing has appeared in Esquire, The Guardian, British GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where I held a position reporting on cultural events across the UK and Europe.

I’m currently an editor at the Observer Magazine, the Guardian’s Sunday magazine, where I write and edit interviews and features. I’m the former editor of the art and design website It’s Nice That, and a former designer. I’ve also edited two books on design, including a study of the Japanese designer Masamichi Katayama, for the German publisher Gestalten.

I’m at work on a book about Greece and grief.

︎︎︎ Selected writing

Recent
On my dad, my son – and chickpeas (The New York Times Magazine)
On Jamie Demetriou and thickness (The Guardian)
On Michael Rosen and sad thoughts (The Guardian)
On Rory Kinnear—sad man (The Guardian)
On Rob Delaney’s terrible loss (The Guardian)
On Hollywood recluse Sally Hawkins (The Guardian)
On Eddie Marsan, angry man (The Guardian)
On Nicholas Braun, Succession’s Cousin Greg (The Guardian)
On quiet places (The Guardian)
On bad bosses (The Guardian)
On near-death experiences and Disney’s Soul (The Guardian)
On poet Kate Baer and the burden of motherhood (The Guardian)
On journalist James O’Brien and arguing (The Guardian)
On Robert Pattinson’s baffling self-doubt (The Guardian)
On Marcus Willis and the tennis grind (Esquire)

You can read all of my Observer Magazine work here.

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︎︎︎ Contact

alex.moshakis@theguardian.com / Twitter / Instagram