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Hi, Nai Here
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“This Diss is Selfish”
This is going to be one hell of a selfish dissertation … … I thought while writing the proposal for this project. I tried to stay dignified yet emphatic with my obvious point that I would contribute to the conversation on environmental and transpacific studies. I meant it. But it wasn’t the whole story. I…
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拆: Journey to a Non-Place
How do you travel to your demolished hometown?
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Bad Diss Days Doodles
Oh, those days in a dissertation-writing life
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Intangible Gunk in Gray Ice: The Kamchatkans Look at Their Lives
This is how we have lived, for too long.
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“Oh, The Places You Can(’t) Touch”: I Read the Same Book Before, During, and After the Pandemic
I wrote the first draft of this essay about a year ago when the weird tranquility of the pandemic was still lingering. I left it unfinished and came back to it in September 2023. In the old draft I had opened the essay with an audio compilation called “Missing Sounds of New York” that the…
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On Living Lukewarm
I stay alive. And that’s enough.
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On Powerful Vignettes in Vignettes
Let’s tackle “big” narratives in small ways.
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Michelle de Kretser Looks at Home Decor
What It Tells About You, Your Travel, and Your Home
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Ocean Vuong’s Looking
To reach you, I look at you.
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Staying Smart with a Baby
For fellow faltering new mothers, especially those of us who (used to) read and write for living
