Lili Owen Rowlands
liliowenrowlands [at] gmail.com

I am a psychoanalyst in training at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

I am also an Early Career Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, UoL, and a critic.

Criticism

‘Rape Crisis Centres’, London Review of Books, June 2025

‘What Charlotte Shane Learned from Sex Work’, The New Yorker, September 2024

‘Marguerite Duras and the Domestication of Desire’, The New Yorker, December 2022

‘I was the Human Torch’, Review of The Works of Guillaume Dustan (Volume I), London Review of Books, December 2022

‘Sophie Calle and the Art of Leaving a Trace’, The New Yorker, November 2021

‘Marguerite Duras on Television’, Another Gaze/Screen, May 2021

‘Moi aussi’, Review of Consent by Vanessa Springora, London Review of Books, April 2021

‘Into a Blazing Oven’, Review of Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes, London Review of Books, December 2020

‘The Scene on the Bridge’, Review of Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot, London Review of Books,  March 2020

‘Something that Wasn’t There’, Review of A Father by Sibylle Lacan London Review of Books, June 2019