Angela Chen
@chengela.bsky.social
Journalist, editor, and author of Ace, interested in science and technology, philosophy, relationships, and books. angelachen.org
Is the top middle image "an image with a car"?
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Is the top middle image "an image with a car"?
Going through vacation photos, found this from the Franz Kafka Museum. Welcome, Franz.
October 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Going through vacation photos, found this from the Franz Kafka Museum. Welcome, Franz.
I've had this on my "to-read" since @ruthgraham.bsky.social raved about it years and years ago (her review here: slate.com/culture/2017...). It's extraordinary, perfect mix of psychologically insightful plus dramatic plus existential.
October 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I've had this on my "to-read" since @ruthgraham.bsky.social raved about it years and years ago (her review here: slate.com/culture/2017...). It's extraordinary, perfect mix of psychologically insightful plus dramatic plus existential.
I have an essay in the latest
@kenyonreview.bsky.social. It circles questions I've been asking for almost ten years now: how should a medical diagnosis shape the past? When does biology require reconciliation? And what does it mean to be emotionally fair? kenyonreview.org/piece/disease-disposition/
@kenyonreview.bsky.social. It circles questions I've been asking for almost ten years now: how should a medical diagnosis shape the past? When does biology require reconciliation? And what does it mean to be emotionally fair? kenyonreview.org/piece/disease-disposition/
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I have an essay in the latest
@kenyonreview.bsky.social. It circles questions I've been asking for almost ten years now: how should a medical diagnosis shape the past? When does biology require reconciliation? And what does it mean to be emotionally fair? kenyonreview.org/piece/disease-disposition/
@kenyonreview.bsky.social. It circles questions I've been asking for almost ten years now: how should a medical diagnosis shape the past? When does biology require reconciliation? And what does it mean to be emotionally fair? kenyonreview.org/piece/disease-disposition/
Perhaps everything is easier said than done, but I do believe that if I were the most notorious traitor in CIA history, I would have tried harder to cover my tracks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
August 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Perhaps everything is easier said than done, but I do believe that if I were the most notorious traitor in CIA history, I would have tried harder to cover my tracks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Truly, unintended consequences for everything.
July 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Truly, unintended consequences for everything.
I do like this Muriel Rukeyser poem, but have less sympathy each time I remember she wrote it in the 60s. "Various devices"? I'll show you various devices! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
June 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I do like this Muriel Rukeyser poem, but have less sympathy each time I remember she wrote it in the 60s. "Various devices"? I'll show you various devices! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
I grew up in Silicon Valley and first heard this phrase at 16. I am, shall we say, amused to see it recounted here as still the reasoning du jour. From an @nybooks.com piece reviewing new books on sexual ethics: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
March 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I grew up in Silicon Valley and first heard this phrase at 16. I am, shall we say, amused to see it recounted here as still the reasoning du jour. From an @nybooks.com piece reviewing new books on sexual ethics: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Got this notice while trying to access a paper with the subtitle "Is Mutual Love with a Robot Possible?" Not at this rate!
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Got this notice while trying to access a paper with the subtitle "Is Mutual Love with a Robot Possible?" Not at this rate!
I've been thinking about "running to" versus "running from" and enjoyed this similar Orpheus/Odysseus parallel that apparently was a rhetorical parallel that MLK Jr used: davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-to-mak.... (Next line, of course, notes this didn't really work out for Orpheus.)
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I've been thinking about "running to" versus "running from" and enjoyed this similar Orpheus/Odysseus parallel that apparently was a rhetorical parallel that MLK Jr used: davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-to-mak.... (Next line, of course, notes this didn't really work out for Orpheus.)
This detail on anti-social architecture—from a smart @theatlantic.com feature on solitude—caught my eye. Just last week I was thinking about how my place (built 1910) had a "bad" layout because the living room was too large and bedrooms too small. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This detail on anti-social architecture—from a smart @theatlantic.com feature on solitude—caught my eye. Just last week I was thinking about how my place (built 1910) had a "bad" layout because the living room was too large and bedrooms too small. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
One of my favorite article genres is "tracking down a zombie stat" and here's a great addition. Have you seen the stat that men are only 20% of the fiction market? @constancegrady.bsky.social tries to track it down: www.vox.com/culture/3929... @vox.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
One of my favorite article genres is "tracking down a zombie stat" and here's a great addition. Have you seen the stat that men are only 20% of the fiction market? @constancegrady.bsky.social tries to track it down: www.vox.com/culture/3929... @vox.com
The Gisele Pelicot rape case—which just ended with a "guilty" verdict for her husband—has gotten a lot of attention. @marincogan.bsky.social wrote about the case, and a similar one in the US due to our exemptions in marital rape laws: www.vox.com/world-politi.... @vox.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
The Gisele Pelicot rape case—which just ended with a "guilty" verdict for her husband—has gotten a lot of attention. @marincogan.bsky.social wrote about the case, and a similar one in the US due to our exemptions in marital rape laws: www.vox.com/world-politi.... @vox.com
Very funny detail from an ongoing case accusing selective unis of letting in rich, academically weak kids. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/u.... Imagine the incentives if kids actually got an admissions edge from having divorced parents!
December 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Very funny detail from an ongoing case accusing selective unis of letting in rich, academically weak kids. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/u.... Imagine the incentives if kids actually got an admissions edge from having divorced parents!
"The most popular translator in the history of Iran translated hardly anything at all...In some cases, the author of the book Mansouri was supposedly translating didn’t even exist." This 'translation' of Lolita is truly amusing. From @yalereview.bsky.social: yalereview.org/article/amir...
December 18, 2024 at 2:45 PM
"The most popular translator in the history of Iran translated hardly anything at all...In some cases, the author of the book Mansouri was supposedly translating didn’t even exist." This 'translation' of Lolita is truly amusing. From @yalereview.bsky.social: yalereview.org/article/amir...
"The way we think about how China would overrun Taiwan may well be wrong. Rather than an all-out invasion, it could attempt to capture the island without firing a single shot through 'gray zone' tactics." @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/world-politi...
December 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
"The way we think about how China would overrun Taiwan may well be wrong. Rather than an all-out invasion, it could attempt to capture the island without firing a single shot through 'gray zone' tactics." @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/world-politi...
If only this hed had been written in 2012—the joy I would have felt sending this to the professor who made us read parts of said novel. (It's Что делать? — "What is To Be Done?" — by Chernyshevsky. I remember this vividly because as a joke I wrote my last name as Chenyshevsky for the relevant exam.)
December 17, 2024 at 3:42 AM
If only this hed had been written in 2012—the joy I would have felt sending this to the professor who made us read parts of said novel. (It's Что делать? — "What is To Be Done?" — by Chernyshevsky. I remember this vividly because as a joke I wrote my last name as Chenyshevsky for the relevant exam.)
Okay, this was funny too.
December 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Okay, this was funny too.
My Friday: looking at a “software buttons” exhibit at the Computer History Museum. I’d wear the Word one, but for Google Docs.
December 13, 2024 at 8:59 PM
My Friday: looking at a “software buttons” exhibit at the Computer History Museum. I’d wear the Word one, but for Google Docs.
. @rachelmcohen.bsky.social on how joint filing — the default for married couples in the US — keeps women out of the work force: www.vox.com/policy/39077.... Most peer countries have embraced individual filing, to good effect.
December 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
. @rachelmcohen.bsky.social on how joint filing — the default for married couples in the US — keeps women out of the work force: www.vox.com/policy/39077.... Most peer countries have embraced individual filing, to good effect.
Lots of economic information (and character study) packed into this sentence:
December 9, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Lots of economic information (and character study) packed into this sentence:
How LA Paul, with undergrad science degrees, prepared to get into philosophy grad school: write to a bunch of philosophers, ask if they'll correspond with you for $250, get their letters of rec. I like it! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
How LA Paul, with undergrad science degrees, prepared to get into philosophy grad school: write to a bunch of philosophers, ask if they'll correspond with you for $250, get their letters of rec. I like it! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Didn't know this! "Since at least 1931, vaccinologists have used fertilized chicken eggs to make influenza vaccines." worksinprogress.co/issue/animal...
December 6, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Didn't know this! "Since at least 1931, vaccinologists have used fertilized chicken eggs to make influenza vaccines." worksinprogress.co/issue/animal...
Seems like everyone's a YIMBY these days, but that surface agreement can mask divides — and we've seen momentum before without much change. @rachelmcohen.bsky.social reviews 3 new housing books and asks whether this time it's different: www.vox.com/policy/38943...
December 4, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Seems like everyone's a YIMBY these days, but that surface agreement can mask divides — and we've seen momentum before without much change. @rachelmcohen.bsky.social reviews 3 new housing books and asks whether this time it's different: www.vox.com/policy/38943...