Kaitlan Bui is a writer currently based between London and Saigon. As a Marshall Scholar, she studies Migration, Diaspora Studies, and Vietnamese Language at SOAS, University of London.
Kaitlan Bui
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Writing on Public Books
“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism
“Labor” forces us to ask: Who has power? “Horror” forces us to ask: Who is the monster? And the combination of the two, “Labor-as-Horror,” tells us to beware the uncomfortable fractures in our otherwise ordinary work.
Modes of Witness: On “The Singularity” and “The Simple Art of Killing a Woman”
Despite their opposing answers to the question—what to do with the grief of witnessing?—both novels lead us up and back down the long, winding road of grief and witness.
