Andrea Long Chu
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Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority April 30, 2025
The critic Andrea Long Chu made her name by daring, repeatedly and self-consciously, to say the unsayable. In her earliest essays, published in n+1 in 2018 and 2019, the unsayable was always some aspect of a single idea: the futility of shouldn’t in ...
Criticism as Apologetics April 08, 2025
CHIEVING A STAFF writer position is nearly every critic’s dream. Yet not everyone who gets such a coveted role deserves it. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Andrea Long Chu undoubtedly does. Her criticism, which has appeared in n+1, The New Yorker, ...
