Other
Essays
FAR-NEAR | 2024
“Boys Over Ethics Over Aesthetics”
Illustrations by Teng Yung Han.
”Fruits are sweet but quick to rot, flowers are fair but quick to wilt. Girls, more than boys, seem to be cautioned of the hazards of puppy love, for reasons that are presumably both biological and Confucian.”
Public Books | 2021
“The I in Murakami”
“The man has written a book called First Person Singular—i.e., I—narrated by men who share his biography and even his name. And you put the monkey on the cover?”
art publications
A SMALL POND UNDER THE BLUE SKY (2023)
Celebrating Special Special projects from 2016-2022. Edited by Wen-You Cai and Lin King.
ROOSTER, TIGER, SHEEP BY SNAKE (2019)
By Wen-You Cai, translated from English to Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition at MGM COTAI, Macau.
CAI GUO-QIANG AND POMPEII: IN THE VOLCANO (2019)
Catalogue for the solo exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With translations by Lin King.
FLORA COMMEDIA: CAI GUO-QIANG AT THE UFFIZI (2018)
Catalogue for the solo exhibition at the Uffizi Galleries. With translations by Lin King.
selected juvenilia (COllege writing)
I’m mostly leaving this here because I worked really hard on this web layout back in the day.
'THE DANISH GIRL': BEAUTIFUL AND UTTERLY LOST
'TRUMBO': NOT QUITE AS
GOOD AS TRUMBO
THE WHITE AMERICAN MAN IN
THE HIGH CASTLE
ON NOT FORGETTING:
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
A TALE OF TWO TALES:
'HOWARDS END' AND 'ON BEAUTY'
WHY COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD DO LESS AND SLEEP MORE
RESIDUAL SHOCK, RESIDUAL PEACE: HIROSHIMA MEMORIAL
HISTORICALLY FRESH:
CAMBRIDGE, UK
WHAT YOUR ACCENT
SAYS ABOUT YOU
FIVE BOOKS FOR THE
SLIGHTLY DISILLUSIONED