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Essays/Criticism

 

By Signalling Nothing I Remain OpaqueLiquid Architecture

House Style Lifestyle, or: Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same.Cordite Poetry Review

Six Contradictory PolemicsOverland Literary Journal

Cursed ImagesFootscray Community Arts Centre

So Much ThisKill Your Darlings

Who’s Your Normie?LIMINAL

Two Way MirrorsRunway #38: SPECTACLE

The Streets are HauntedWesterly Magazine

The Limits of CompassionMeanjin

Worldly PlacelessnessThe Lifted Brow

(In)visibilised: On Race and Sexual HarassmentFeminartsy

Crafted Nostalgia: The Romanticisation of a Handmade EconomyKill Your Darlings

Eating MulticulturalismPeril Magazine


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Technology/New Media

 

Novelists Still Don’t Know How to Talk About the InternetKill Your Darlings

ERROR: NOT FOUNDArts Gen k(not)

Discontented By ContentMeanjin

Reclaiming AnonymityKill Your Darlings

Demanding ConvenienceKill Your Darlings

Speed TestsThe Lifted Brow #44: Digital Intimacies

Recurring AmnesiaKill Your Darlings

Fake It Till You Make ItMatters Journal #3

Unfaithful to Their OriginsKill Your Darlings

Artificial Intelligence and the Virtual/IRL DivideModel View Culture

On Selfie ShamingOverland Literary Journal


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Books

 

“Psychic Exile: Cher Tan on Ouyang Yu” Liminal Review of Books

Desire Under Capitalism: on Sally Rooney’s IntermezzoKill Your Darlings

Grim Aussie tale avoids trauma porn territory: on Paddy O’Reilly’s Other Houses The Guardian

Main Character Syndrome: on Tao Lin’s TaipeiLiminal Review of Books

On Second City: Essays From Western Sydney Mascara Literary Review

On Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About ThisThe Saturday Paper

On Jamie Marina Lau’s Gunk BabyThe Saturday Paper

Turn Off Tune Out Drop Out Sell Out Buy In: Cher Tan on Virginie DespentesSydney Review of Books

On Anwen Crawford’s No DocumentInDaily

Abolish The Border: Cher Tan on S.L. LimSydney Review of Books

Nobody’s Home: on George Haddad’s Populate and PerishMeanjin

Best Books of 2020 The Saturday Paper

On Clarissa Goenawan’s The Perfect World of Miwako SumidaThe Saturday Paper

Good Migrant/Bad Migrant: Cher Tan on Peter PolitesSydney Review of Books

On Sweatshop Women: Volume TwoThe Saturday Paper

Uncanny Valleys: Cher Tan on Elizabeth TanSydney Review of Books

Technophilia and Its Discontents: on Anna Wiener’s Uncanny ValleyMeanjin

On Intan Paramaditha’s The WanderingThe Saturday Paper

On Yumna Kassab’s The House of YoussefThe Saturday Paper

Museum of The Self: on Nathan Jurgenson’s The Social PhotoKill Your Darlings

Feeling Seen: on Akiko Busch’s How To DisappearMeanjin

Class Clown: on Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate The Lifted Brow

Idle Minds: on Jenny Odell’s How To Do NothingKill Your Darlings

To Freedom That Blooms On Stumps: on Jackie Wang’s Carceral CapitalismThe Lifted Brow



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Interviews

 

Brian CastroLIMINAL

Rama ParwataLIMINAL

S.L. LimLIMINAL

Vidya RajanLIMINAL

Jia TolentinoThe Lifted Brow

Eugenia LimLIMINAL

John Young ZerungeLIMINAL

Natesha SomasundaramLIMINAL

Eugenia FlynnLIMINAL

Sonia NairLIMINAL

Sangeetha ThanapalLIMINAL

Shoeb AhmadLIMINAL

Creatrix TiaraLIMINAL






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Food

 

Born From Beasts of the Outside WorldRoads and Kingdoms

Chinese GoulashRoads and Kingdoms