John Self. Fed Up With Her Country, a Writer Finds New Life in Another // The New York Times. February 28, 2026. 

"The success of “The Disappearing Act” lies in how these diverting scenes inform larger questions about what makes us who we are when we’re without possessions and places and work, or how we categorize people in the absence of other identifiers, through nationality, for example. “It was the beast they saw in her,” M realizes as she talks to strangers, “the beast first and foremost.”"