2022
“The Varieties of Chinese Repression.” New York Times Book Review: 27 Feb. 2022
2021
“The Mystery of My Obsession with Agatha Christie.” New York Times Magazine: 1 Aug. 2021.
“How a Herd of Elephants Won China’s Internet.” New York Times Magazine: 27 June 2021.
2020
“Plunged into Reverence”: Rev. of Thin Places: Times Literary Supplement: 13 Nov. 2020: 38.
“Mulishly Unseasonal”: Times Literary Supplement: 26 June 2020 with bonus editor’s note endorsing summer crime!
2019
“Welfare Royalty”: Rev. of The Queen: Times Literary Supplement: 15 Nov. 2019
“The Cycle”: Rev. of Ladies Who Punch: Times Literary Supplement: 23 Aug. 2019
2018
“Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan'”: Rev. of “Lifespan of a Fact”. New York Times, 3 Dec. 2018
“Natasha Ginzburg’s Family.” Tin House, Fall 2018.
Rev. of Half Gods: The New Yorker: June 25 2018.
“The Left-Handed Kid.” Rev. of The Chinese Typewriter. The London Review of Books: 8 March 2018: 21.
“Savages”: Rev. of Educated: The Times Literary Supplement: 10 April 2018.
“The Sigh of the Tiger”: Rev. of Little Soldiers: The Times Literary Supplement: 28 Feb. 2018.
2017
Trans. “Raise the red pen”: Harper’s Magazine: Dec. 2017: 12
“Pinch of parts”: Rev. of Logical Family: The Times Literary Supplement: 28 Nov. 2017.
Rev. of Smile: The New Yorker: 27 Nov. 2017.
Rev. of The World to Come: The Times Literary Supplement: 24 Nov. 2017.
“Why pick fights?”: Rev. of Making It and The Draw: The Times Literary Supplement: 26 Sept. 2017.
Rev. of The Stranger in the Woods: The New Yorker: 11 Sept. 2017.
Rev. of Flesh and Blood and Bone: The New Yorker: 31 July 2017.
“Flags in Still Air”: Rev. of Notes from No Man’s Land: The Times Literary Supplement: 4 July. 2017.
“Plucky digressions”: Rev. of The Purple Swamp Hen & Other Stories: BOMB: 26 June 2017
“Return of the Pirate Slut”: Rev. of Love & Trouble: Los Angeles Review of Books: 19 June 2017
Rev. of Somebody with a Little Hammer: The New Yorker: 24 April 2017.
“Nerd pyrotechnics”: Rev. of Word by Word: The Times Literary Supplement: 19 Apr. 2017.
Rev. of Idaho: The New Yorker: 3 April 2017.
Rev. of The Gardens of Consolation: The New Yorker: 9 Jan 9 2017.
2016
Rev. of A Floating Chinaman: The Times Literary Supplement: 1 Dec. 2016.
Rev. of Valiant Gentlemen. VICE: 1 Nov. 2016.
Rev. of The Virginity of Famous Men. VICE: 4 Sept. 2016.
Rev. of The Golden Age: The New Yorker: 21 Nov. 2016.
Rev. of The Nix: The New Yorker: 24 Oct. 2016.
Rev. of The Heavenly Table. The New Yorker: 19 Sept. 2016.
Rev. of The Bones of Grace. The New Yorker: 5 Sept. 2016.
Rev. of Mothering Sunday. The New Yorker: 27 June 2016: 71.
Rev. of Peacekeeping. VICE: May 2016: 103.
Rev. of Behave. New York Times Book Review: 21 April 2016: 11.
Rev. of The Lost Time Accidents. The New Yorker: 28 March 2016: 79.
Rev. of The Past. The New Yorker: 7 March 2016: 69.
“Gushing and Gleeking”: Rev. of Year of the Goose. L.A. Review of Books: 16 Feb. 2016: Web.
Rev. of Under the Udala Trees. The New Yorker: 4 Jan. 2016: 73
2015
Rev. of Everland. The New Yorker: 12 Oct. 2015: 105
Trans. “Mao’s little Facebook”: Harper’s Magazine: Sept. 2015: 12
“High Style and Desperate Love: On the Life and Work of Eileen Chang.”The Millions: May 2015: Web.
“Drag Princess.” Rev. of Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy. New York Times BookReview: 3 May 2015: 18.
Rev. of Preparation for the Next Life. Cleaver Magazine: March 2015: Web.
Rev. of The Unspeakable: and Other Subjects of Discussion. Cleaver Magazine: Feb. 2015: Web.
2014
Rev. of The Use of Man. Cleaver Magazine: Dec. 2014: Web.
Rev. of Orphans. Cleaver Magazine: Nov. 2014: Web.
Rev. of The Woman Who Borrowed Memories. Cleaver Magazine: Oct. 2014: Web.
Rev. of My Life as a Foreign Country. Cleaver Magazine: Oct. 2014: Web.
Rev. of The Search for Heinrich Schögel. Cleaver Magazine: Sept. 2014: Web.