Geoffrey Mak
My essays blending personal essay and cultural criticism. I'm the author of MEAN BOYS (Bloomsbury, 2024).
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Josh at Christmas
This essay was originally supposed to appear in the New Yorker, but didn’t make the final cut, so I’m sharing it here. It’s a family comedy when my brother and I met each other’s first boyfriends for the first time, in New York before Chris...
Reflections on My Father After My Brother's Marriage
I was organizing my Google Drive, preparing PDFs for a class I’m about to teach, and I stumbled across the folder of photos of my father and me as a baby, which our family assembled when The New Yorker asked for childhood photos when I wrot...
What It Means to Love Someone Evil
Adrien Ghenie, The Alpine Retreat, 2016 (a painting of Eva Braun, Hitler’s wife)
I always found it easier to love evil people. Evil people were more entertaining. I knew I wasn’t loved in return, but I didn’t need to be. I thought by lovin...
Why Does Every Novel Remake Win a Prize?
Books Reviewed:
Happiness and Love, Zoe Dubno
Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
James, Percival Everett
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Blackouts, Justin Torres
The artists are at a dinner party gossiping about a dead woman....
An Art Critic's Manifesto Against the Dark Enlightenment
Adrian Piper, Food for the Spirit (1971)
I was giving a reading at FOOD, Lucien Smith’s new restaurant in Chinatown based off the legendary artist restaurant run by Gordon Matta-Clark from way back when. I was happy to see my friend Sam in...
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I'm the author of Mean Boys (Bloomsbury, 2024). I've written for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Artforum, The Guardian. I co-edited Writing on Raving (O/R Books, 2025).
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