Andrea Long Chu

Essays

“The Right to Change Sex.” New York. 2024.
“The Free-Speech Debate Is a Trap.” New York. 2023.
“China Brain.” n+1. 2021.
“The Pink.” n+1. 2019.
“Bad TV.” n+1. 2018.
“On Liking Women.” n+1. 2018.

Criticism

“Against Women’s Writing.” Review of Parade, by Rachel Cusk. New York. 2024.
“How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth.” Review of The Fraud, by Zadie Smith. New York. 2023.
“How the Cowboy Was Colonized.” Review of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone. New York. 2023.
“The Opera Ghost.” Review of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. New York. 2023.
“The Last of Us Is Not a Video-Game Adaptation.” New York. 2023.
“Misreading Octavia Butler.” New York. 2022.
“The Velveteen Rabbit Was Always More Than a Children’s Book.” New York. 2022.
“The Mixed Asian Metaphor.” Review of several novels by mixed Asian authors. New York. 2022.
“Ottessa Moshfegh is Praying for Us.” Review of Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh. New York. 2022.
“The Rival Shows of ‘Yellowjackets.’” Review of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. New Yorker. 2022.
“Hanya’s Boys.” Review of To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara. New York. 2022.
“Tao Lin Is Recovering from Himself.” Review of Leave Society, by Tao Lin. New Yorker. 2022.
“You’ve Heard This One Before.” Review of On Freedom, by Maggie Nelson. New York. 2021.
“The More Things Change.” Review of Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Jewish Currents. 2020.
“Let’s Go, Lesbians.” Review of Lesbian Nation, by Jill Johnston. Artforum. 2019.
“Psycho Analysis.” Review of White, by Bret Easton Ellis. Bookforum. 2019.
“Can Food Help Resist Patriarchy?” Review of Supper Club, by Lara Williams. New York Times. 2019.
“No One Wants It.” Review of She Wants It, by Jill Soloway. Affidavit. 2018.
“Know Joke.” Review of Webcomic Name, by Alex Norris. Artforum. 2018.
“Prep School Confidential.” Review of Inappropriation, by Lexi Freiman. Bookforum. 2018.
“A Phantasmic Woman.” Review of Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal. Bookforum. 2018.

Comment

“Hot or Not.” The Drift. 2022.
“On Lauren Berlant.” n+1. 2021.
“I Worked with Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018.
“My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy.” New York Times. 2018.
“Extreme Pregnancy.” Boston Review. 2018.