Personal Essays, Cultural Criticism, and Reviews
“Ask Not What Your Robot Can Do For You, But What You Can Do For Your Robot.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 4 October 2023.
“Pinned Under the Bodies of Men” Modern Love Column, The New York Times, 15 September 2023.
“What Chinese Calligraphy Taught Me About Myself.” The New York Times. June 23 June 2023.
“The Writing’s On The Wall: Indelible City, Indelibly Marked”. Literary Hub. 13 December 2022.
“Protest Hides in Plain Sight in Hong Kong”. Wired. 4 August 2022.
“Orientalism in Our Code: “The Matrix Resurrections,” Hollywood, and Anti-Asian Violence”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 18 June 2022.
“Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up”. The Brooklyn Rail. March 2022
“Fear is the Mind Killer; What Enlivens the Mind?: Dune’s Alt-Victimhood and Radical Nonviolence in Nausicaä”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 22 December 2021.
“The Unwitting Covid Allegory in A Quiet Place Part II”. Wired. 16 June 2021.
“Watching A Life on Our Planet, or How I Ruined David Attenborough for Myself”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 23 May 2021.
“On anti-Asian hate crime”. Brown Alumni Magazine. June 2021.
“Chang-Rae Lee’s Global Novel: Review of My Year Abroad”. Asian American Writers Workshop. 10 May 2021
“The Atlanta Shootings Made Me Stop Gaslighting Myself”. Wired. 19 March 2021.
“Stories about Girls, Sex, and Power are Vital—If We are Brave Enough to Look”. Literary Hub. 4 January 2021.
“Murder, Molotov Cocktails, and Burning Police Stations: Black Lives Matter, White Feminism, Three Billboards, and Intersectionality”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 10 October 2020.
“The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore”. Wired. 29 July 2020.
“What Singapore Can Teach the World About Personal Liberty”. Wired. 28 April 2020.
"The Silent Politics of the Comfort Woman Statue(s): Adjacency, Participation, Proliferation." The Margins. Asian American Writers Workshop. 15 Jan 2020.
“The Damaging Asian Male Sexuality in Crazy Rich Asians and Why It Is Not Asian Black Panther,” Dissident Voices, September 2018 (republished in Rice Media)