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Reviews

Lethal Irony
Fixer Chao by Han Ong
The LA Review of Books

Child's Play
Priscilla, dir. Sofia Coppola (2023)
New York Review of Books Online

‘All-Night Pharmacy’ is a California noir novel for the 21st century
All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
The Washington Post

‘Yellowface,’ a satire of race and publishing, falls into its own trap
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
The Washington Post

A Review of Users
Users by Colin Winnette
The Believer

A Review of The Tiger and the Cage
The Tiger and the Cage by Emma Bolden
The Believer

The Conundrum of Sexual Life in Today's America
Gentlemen Callers by Corinne Hoex
The Atlantic

Only Human
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Bookforum

Bad Education
The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
Jewish Currents
2022 Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Book Reviewing Finalist

An Ecstasy of Shame
Darryl by Jackie Ess 
The White Review

Welcome to the Afterparty of the American Dream
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So 
The Atlantic

Seen and Unseen
Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
The Baffler

Canon of Scam
Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana
The Nation

The Limits of the Confessional Novel
Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
The New Republic

Small Worlds
Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig 
The Baffler

Natasha Stagg Has No Illusions
Sleeveless by Natasha Stagg
The New Republic

Crazy Sad Asians
The Farewell (2019), dir. Lulu Wang
The New Republic 

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Bookforum Online


Essays

The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
On the tradwife phenomenon
Dissent

The Apocalyptic Sublime
On the Internet and the commodity
Verso Blog

Rigorous Feelings
On feminism and emotion
Gawker

In Praise of Congee
Letter of Recommendation for congee
The New York Times Magazine

Paranoia's Pleasures
On Thomas Pynchon and paranoia
The Believer

Beauty Truly Blent
On blushing
The Believer

Emotional Oversight Committee
On Reddit and r/AmITheAsshole
Real Life


Politics

The President is Arrested
Miami and the Siege of Mar-a-lago
The Baffler

A Fragile Answer to the Question of "Whose Streets?"
Mobility justice and the Black Lives Matter protests
The New Republic

A New Age of Destructive Austerity after Coronavirus
Why the end of austerity is not yet near
The New Republic