Why I wrote fanfic and why I stopped
Fanfic filled me up as a writer until it limited me.
Review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges
My review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges, a journal of literary translation.
Records of homosexuality in premodern Korea
Who could their emulation of / the courtly love infringe?
[Review] The Lantern and the Night Moths
A remarkable new collection of translated Chinese poetry and original essays by the translator.
Starting–and staying–small with housecleaning
On doing better and stressing less about the house with small, unambitious habits
The Crimes of the Cat (責猫)
Whose dereliction is it, pray / that mice run mad and wild?
[Review] Sad Sacked by Liz Alterman
This memoir of a middle-class family’s brush with unemployment was funny and vivid in parts, but ultimately unsatisfying.
Overthinking the Schwarzschild Defence
Fact-checking the 2023 short story The Schwarzschild Defence because I am a killjoy.
The Dragon's Son Defeats the God of Plague
Before Koreans knew smallpox as a virus, we knew her as a god.
Delightful Spring Night Rain
It trails the wind, comes stealing in at night / Bedews all things with thin and soundless threads.