Chris Jesu Lee

Author Archive

  • Oct 6, 2025
    Artists wishing to capture their era face a dilemma. Let too much time pass and run the risk of subject matter losing relevance, especially in today’s hyper-competitive...
  • Jul 17, 2025
    If you could be a one-trick pony, but that one trick was really amazing, would you take it? After labouring through the first season of Too Much1, I can only conclude that Lena...
  • Jun 10, 2025
    What do we mean when we call a novel “urgent?” Presumably, we do not mean that the novel urges us to commit a certain act, or even to align with an ideology or support a...
  • Apr 30, 2025
    So you’re a writer in the year 2025. You’re still waiting for the 100-or-so (pre-tax) bucks to hit your bank account for the freelance piece that was published months...
  • Mar 20, 2025
    Literary readings are a funny thing. They’re often held at bars, but they’re not exactly ragers. I rarely see anybody get wasted at these things the way people often get...
  • Feb 17, 2025
    Ty Rossberg ought to try being a serial killer. He’d at least be more loved than what he is in Stuart Ross’ The Hotel Egypt: a straight white male writer during the...
  • Jan 7, 2025
    The young nanny has long captured our collective imagination as a feminine ideal: youthful, vulnerable in a stranger’s home, and professionally obligated to please. She’s...