Cher Tan

Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, the Guardian, Runway Journal, Overland and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She is the reviews editor at Meanjin and an editor at Liminal. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, was released in May 2024 by NewSouth Publishing. She lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Check out Cher’s online course Writing Criticism.

Desire Under Capitalism

Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions with Cher Tan

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Novelists Still Don’t Know How To Talk About The Internet

Books Roundup: Eating with My Mouth Open, Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Born into This, Fake Accounts

Reclaiming Anonymity in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Demanding Convenience: The False Promise of the On-Demand Economy

Museum of the Self: Authenticity and the Social Photo

So Much This: The Sameness of Internet Culture

Idle Minds: Jenny Odell’s ‘How To Do Nothing’

Recurring Amnesia: On Memory and the Internet

Worlds Within Worlds

Unfaithful to their Origins

Crafted nostalgia: The romanticisation of a hand-made economy

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