Selected culture writing &
short form

The Walrus · 2026

My Perfect Friend: I Spent Months with an AI Companion

[ culture writing ]

The Walrus · 2025

Anyone Could Be Anyone

[ fiction ]

Black Warrior Review · 2025

Rascal Children

[ essay ][ buy the issue ]

The Walrus · 2024

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

[ culture writing ]

Doris McCarthy Gallery · 2024

There is a story in the rock

[ essay ]

The Nation · 2021

The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora

[ culture writing ]

Guernica · 2020

The Pandemic Novelist Has Regrets

[ culture writing ]

Granta · 2019

If You Start Breathing

[ fiction ]

The Paris Review · 2018

Because the Story Was Mine

[ essay ]

The Globe and Mail · 2018

Two authors fight off the cliches of female friendships

[ culture writing ]

Grist Journal · 2018

Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutis

[ essay ][ buy the issue ]

The Southampton Review · 2016

Shanghai Longing

[ essay ][ buy the issue ]