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Anabelle Johnston

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ESSAYS  AND CRITICISM 
on ‘The Place of Shells’ (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2025)
on ‘Dancing On My Own’ (Cleveland Review of Books, 2025)
on ‘Mirror Nation’ (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024) 
on ‘Mahjong’ (ScreenSlate, 2023)
on the impact of AI porn on adult performers (the Baffler, 2023) 
on hyperpop offline (Nina, 2023)
on Oscar yi Hou (Movements, 2023)
on ‘OldBoy’ (Little White Lies, 2023)
on ‘My Strange Addiction’, Nan Goldin, and the opioid epidemic (the Indy, 2023)
on disaffected female protagonists (the Indy, 2022)
on the mycological potential of web3 (the Indy, 2022)
on reading and artificial care (Real Life, 2022)
on ‘The Digital Closet’ (Eye on Design, 2022)
on queer algorithmic discovery (Logic, 2021) 
on ‘The King of Masked Singer’ (the Indy, 2020)


FICTION
Cult Classic (Angel Food Mag, 2024)
Swimming Lessons (Forever Mag, 2023)
The Memory Machine (Kernel, 2022)

INTERVIEWS 

Scroll as Textile: An Interview with Maya Man (Syntax Mag, 2023)
Time is A Spiral: An Interview with Alex Westfall (the Indy, 2022)

Selected Writing: <on The Place of Shells> <on Dancing On My Own> <on Mirror Nation> <“Cult Classic”> <on Mahjong> <on AI pornography> <on OldBoy> <“Swimming Lessons”> <on My Strange Addiction> <on robots and reading> Etc.