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Essays/Criticism

 

“By Signalling Nothing I Remain Opaque” Liquid Architecture

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

“Six Contradictory Polemics” Overland Literary Journal

“Cursed Images” Footscray Community Arts Centre

“So Much This” Kill Your Darlings

“Who’s Your Normie?” LIMINAL

“Two Way Mirrors” Runway #38: SPECTACLE

“The Streets are Haunted” Westerly Magazine

“The Limits of Compassion” Meanjin

“Worldly Placelessness” The Lifted Brow

“(In)visibilised: On Race and Sexual Harassment” Feminartsy

“Crafted Nostalgia: The Romanticisation of a Handmade Economy” Kill Your Darlings

“Eating Multiculturalism” Peril Magazine


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Technology/New Media

 

“Novelists Still Don’t Know How to Talk About the Internet” Kill Your Darlings

“ERROR: NOT FOUND” Arts Gen k(not)

“Discontented By Content” Meanjin

“Reclaiming Anonymity” Kill Your Darlings

“Demanding Convenience” Kill Your Darlings

“Speed Tests” The Lifted Brow #44: Digital Intimacies

“Recurring Amnesia” Kill Your Darlings

“Fake It Till You Make It” Matters Journal #3

“Unfaithful to Their Origins” Kill Your Darlings

“Artificial Intelligence and the Virtual/IRL Divide” Model View Culture

“On Selfie Shaming” Overland Literary Journal


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Books

 

“Spotify is Worse Than You Think: on Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine” Kill Your Darlings

“Cher Tan reviews Hasib Hourani and Manisha Anjali” Cordite Poetry Review

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

“Desire Under Capitalism: on Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo” Kill 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 Taipei” Liminal Review of Books

“On Second City: Essays From Western Sydney” Mascara Literary Review

“On Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This” The Saturday Paper

“On Jamie Marina Lau’s Gunk Baby” The Saturday Paper

“Turn Off Tune Out Drop Out Sell Out Buy In: Cher Tan on Virginie Despentes” Sydney Review of Books

“On Anwen Crawford’s No Document” InDaily

“Abolish The Border: Cher Tan on S.L. Lim” Sydney Review of Books

“Nobody’s Home: on George Haddad’s Populate and Perish” Meanjin

“Best Books of 2020” The Saturday Paper

“On Clarissa Goenawan’s The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida” The Saturday Paper

“Good Migrant/Bad Migrant: Cher Tan on Peter Polites” Sydney Review of Books

“On Sweatshop Women: Volume Two” The Saturday Paper

“Uncanny Valleys: Cher Tan on Elizabeth Tan” Sydney Review of Books

“Technophilia and Its Discontents: on Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley” Meanjin

“On Intan Paramaditha’s The Wandering” The Saturday Paper

”On Yumna Kassab’s The House of Youssef” The Saturday Paper

“Museum of The Self: on Nathan Jurgenson’s The Social Photo” Kill Your Darlings

“Feeling Seen: on Akiko Busch’s How To Disappear” Meanjin

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

“Idle Minds: on Jenny Odell’s How To Do Nothing” Kill Your Darlings

“To Freedom That Blooms On Stumps: on Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism” The Lifted Brow



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Interviews

 

“Ouyang Yu” Meanjin 83.5

“Brian Castro” LIMINAL

“Rama Parwata” LIMINAL

“S.L. Lim” LIMINAL

“Vidya Rajan” LIMINAL

“Jia Tolentino” The Lifted Brow

“Eugenia Lim” LIMINAL

“John Young Zerunge” LIMINAL

“Natesha Somasundaram” LIMINAL

“Eugenia Flynn” LIMINAL

“Sonia Nair” LIMINAL

“Sangeetha Thanapal” LIMINAL

“Shoeb Ahmad” LIMINAL

“Creatrix Tiara” LIMINAL






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Food

 

“Born From Beasts of the Outside World” Roads and Kingdoms

“Chinese Goulash” Roads and Kingdoms