Columns
‘Moonstruck’ Makes Me Reconsider the Myth of Bad Luck
Life can be crappy and expensive and heartbreaking, and there is no way out of that. That story feels more like the truth.
In Horror Films, the Newest Nightmare Is Getting Canceled
Men around me speak about cancel culture with such hyperbole and terror, you’d think it was a supernatural force.
Releasing the Fear of St. Vincent’s “Year of the Tiger”
I fear it and I dream of it: total honesty with my family, opening the door of my personhood and letting them see all of me.
To Tell a Story Is to Tell It Again, to Carry Another Time
Regret, I was once told, means to weep again. My first thought, when I heard this: That’s what it is to tell a story.
The Mixed-Race Fantasy Behind Kawaii Aesthetics
Toward my “Japanese Barbie,” I felt mostly indifferent.
You’re Going to Be Cared For: A Recipe for Braised Chicken Thighs
A Le Creuset Dutch oven telegraphs contentment and cheer—but for me, mine is a token of complicated bitterness and longing.
The Secret Asian American History Behind New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”
I love new wave music for the way it makes me feel—like the cups of my interior and exterior worlds are overflowing. Turns out I’m not the only one.
On Jellyfish and the Fear of Touch
Early in the trip, the jellyfishes begin to take on the quality of metaphor.
A Migrant’s Fashion Manifesto
It is a sin against myself to be anonymous.
Do Female Androids Dream of Rebellion?
There is something revolutionary in their will to be free.