Anatomy of an Andrea Long Chu takedown

"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction

Andrea Long Chu, photographed by Jenny Xu. Andrea Long Chu is the critic we need, and not just because her pen can range from poison-tipped scalpel (on Joey Soloway self-aggrandizing memoir She Wants It: “They mix metaphors like a bartender in a recording studio”) to life invigorating epipen (“There is, after all, a reason that people sit together: they don’t want to be alone,” she writes of mixed-race Asian people in literature).  It is grand a…

Anatomy of an Andrea Long Chu takedown

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