anabelle johnston

reading and writing

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

wrote about a book i loved and a feeling i can't escape for @clereviewbooks https://t.co/gQzwpEU0RE

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

Nominally, Kyung-Ran Jo’s “Blowfish” is a love story—albeit one about the impossibility of reaching through the veil of self-interest to another person. @johnstanabelle writes on Jo’s novel of alienation.
https://t.co/7Lm9ZPN6cY

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

it's like... lost in translation... or something...

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

That “Blowfish” takes place in East Asia is almost happenstance; its characters, living in self-exile, belong everywhere and nowhere. @johnstanabelle writes on the placeless ambiguity of Kyung-Ran Jo’s second novel to be translated into English.
https://t.co/7Lm9ZPN6cY

[Astra House @astrahousebooks]

.@johnstanabelle reviewed Kyung-ran Jo's BLOWFISH, translated by Chi-Young Kim, for @thebafflermag https://t.co/O2YXATCfU2

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

wrote about @ishizawamai's "The Place of Shells" for LARB! stark and beautiful and like trying to describe a dream

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"If the novel feels like it is grasping for language, it is by design." @johnstanabelle reviews Mai Ishizawa's "The Place of Shells." https://t.co/qkooOvJaf8

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

thank you @michaelcredico and @wanna_bri for lovely edits + support

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

wrote about a book i loved and a feeling i can't escape for @clereviewbooks https://t.co/gQzwpEU0RE

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"I can't purchase the identity I feel stripped of by histories of immigration and assimilation and gaysian self-hatred. This doesn’t make silk less pleasurable or persimmons less delicious."

Anabelle Johnston on Simon Wu's Dancing on My Own
@harperbooks
https://t.co/RHbQmeG0zG

[chia @nonperformant]

seoul in a couple weeks 💞 performing vignettes of many new works & games & sounds with mohani at kunst kabinett on dec 21 & 22!

in addition to the performanec, prototyping a new networked talk, 𝒷ℯ𝒸ℴ𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝓎𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 which will be translated in a fun way!

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

sorry this is so hays-coded but i hate when you can tell a movie (anyone but you 2023) feels the need to justify its R rating every five minutes

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

@WERESOBAK i saw this and was like whoah universal experience ... then i realized ...

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

NO more instagram story posts looking for new york sublets. YES tweets asking if anyone still has jstor access…

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

ahead of issue_02: dark web, @maramcavallaro writes brilliantly and urgently about the algorithmic erasure of Palestine. read here and now: https://t.co/2CFZfouyFD

[syntax @syntaxmag]

Mara Cavallaro (@maramcavallaro) writes on the limits and responsibilities of digitally witnessing Palestine.

[Don Mee Choi @DonMeeChoi]

@johnstanabelle: She lingers on the cyclical nature of colonial conflict… In plain terms she describes this phenomenon, stating, “Grief has a tendency to migrate from clock to clock, war to war, massacre to massacre, colony to neocolony.” @LAReviewofBooks @WavePoetry
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[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"The violent act blurs together historical moments along with the human pain: that all burnt bodies smell the same, that freedom and death commiserate, that the only constant is return." @johnstanabelle on the semantics of empire in "Mirror Nation." https://t.co/pqrOoFLS7d

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

grief is ceaseless, empire universal, and her work urgent now and always!!!

[anabelle johnston @johnstanabelle]

studied violence as a form in @DonMeeChoi’s Mirror Nation for @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/AbpJBAFmbK

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

.@johnstanabelle reviews Don Mee Choi's latest: “‘Mirror Nation’ is scaffolded around this cross-wiring of space and time, as events and uprisings are ensnared in one another, and Choi frequently pushes forward, doubles back, and folds over time itself." https://t.co/pqrOoFLS7d