Kim Hew-Low
@kimhewlow
writer 📩 khewlow at gmail
.@kimhewlow writes on the “comedy of green-card marriage,” a genre that enforces traditional power relations and exposes the fundamental conservatism of institutional marriage. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
majusculelit.com/notes-of-an-un… — I wrote an essay about reading Ingeborg Bachmann in Vienna and wearing beige
"What makes technologies like VIKI, Ava, and M3GAN terrifying isn’t their uniquely human intelligence but rather, their mechanical fixation on a singular goal—which, in reality, is always defined by corporate profit. We should shift our attention, then, away from the deceptive…
"[Hayao] Miyazaki’s films all pose different versions of this question... how do you live in a fundamentally unsustainable, destabilizing world?" Revisit @kimhewlow on the uncanny terror that ebbs and flows through the films of Hayao Miyazaki. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
“As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.” thenewinquiry.com/some-country-f…
Girls just want to be confined. They want to be contained and handled. They want freedom to be little spheres of destruction and chaos while knowing that they are still loved and entirely wanted
Its my birthday! This time last year, I sold my debut novel -- my wildest dream. This year, I'm flying home from a beautiful media week in NY for THE OG DAUGHTER, and cannot believe how much life has changed🥹 🌙 OG is available for birthday preorders: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761912/t…
I wrote about the mysterious intimacy of my favorite painter for the @FT's Fantasy Home series
realclearbooks.com Friday reads: @olivertraldi for @FUSIONaier, @johnbyronkuhner for @firstthingsmag @HansZeiger for @ModAgeJournal, @_brittpop_ for @LAReviewofBooks, @kimhewlow for @clereviewbooks, @JustinShubow for @TomKlingenstein, and many others.
"What 'Mobility' offers is a model for centering the personal in a way that amplifies, rather than obfuscates, its political context." @kimhewlow on Lydia Kiesling’s “Mobility” clereviewofbooks.com/writing/lydia-…
For @lithub, I considered Claire Messud’s oeuvre as melodrama — on Sirk, marriages, and literature: lithub.com/brief-encounte…
“Though devised in the spirit of international camaraderie, Olympic pictograms have also come to express the particular aspirations and anxieties of their host nation.” @kimhewlow on the on the political history of @Olympics pictograms
Resisting AI; @lionel_trolling faces the ghosts of resistance and exile in Cologne; @harijs_p among the ruins of Aleppo; fiction by @NicolettePolek and Joy Williams; @kimhewlow on the political history of @Olympics pictograms; Donna Tartt, Simone Weil, @harikunzru, and more, in…