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Geoffrey Mak

Queer Chinese American essayist and cultural critic; author of Mean Boys (Bloomsbury, 2024).

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I’m Teaching an Online Personal Essay Class

It’s for eight weeks, starting September 14

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Can I Go Three Weeks Off Adderall?

A detox diary

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Traces of Erasure: Tacita Dean's Drawings

Is grief an apprehension of the sublime? A meditation on infinity, God, and loss.

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Josh at Christmas

When my brother and I met each other's first boyfriends for the first time.

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Reflections on My Father After My Brother's Marriage

A personal essay on God and fatherhood

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What It Means to Love Someone Evil

Reflections on the the incel mass shooter Elliot Rodger

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An Art Critic's Manifesto Against the Dark Enlightenment

Criticism might be the only freedom we really have

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The Christian Defense of Transgender Subjecthood

With a weird detour to the Declaration of Independence, but hear me out.

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Sleepless Mexico: Art and Politics in Mexico City

I was a dumb American covering an exhibition and had a schizophrenic meltdown.

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High Tea at the Carlyle

In my fantasy life, I compared our friendship to Peter Schjeldahl and Anselm Kiefer.

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A New Revolution in Social Theory

Is hanging out an activity or a form? The answer could change everything.

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Best Personal Essays of 2025

Links to articles or PDFs if it has a paywall, I got you

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Raver Socialism Against Politics as Meme

I never needed the Bushwick pregame to become a political act, yet here we are.

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Dinner with Ellis

A conversation about Buddhism, after the death of a friend

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The New Era

We are in need of new ideas. Maybe Zohran is an idea, in the way that Obama was a person and also an idea.

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