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Claire Cao

SELECTED WRITING


ESSAYS


Mamoru Hosoda’s Metaverse Dreams | Kill Your Darlings
Masaaki Yuasa’s Electric Dreams | ArtReview
Midnight Mass and the Evolution of the Horror Movie Priest | Kill Your Darlings
Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies | Kill Your Darlings
How the TV Workplace Turned Sour | Kill Your Darlings 
Zany romantic action comedies don’t come much better than Scott Pilgrim Vs the World | The Guardian 
Barry: Bill Hader’s dark, funny and brutal show about an assassin who’d rather be an actor | The Guardian 

Fiona Tan’s May You Live in Interesting Times | ArtReview
Cosmopolitan by Rafaela Pandolfini with Jana Hawkins-Andersen | Running Dog
How the library helped me get to know my father | SBS Voices


INTERVIEWS


Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy and George Miller | The Big Issue
Hirokazu Kore-eda | Rough Cut
Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer | The Big Issue
Martin McDonagh | The Big Issue
Rebecca Hall | The Big Issue

Tracey Lien’s All That’s Left Unsaid | Sydney Morning Herald
Plan of Action | Filmmaker (with Violeta Ayala and Miasarah Lai)



REVIEWS


Anna Kate Blair’s The Modern | Meanjin
Viola di Grado’s Blue Hunger | Meanjin
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi | Meanjin
Paul Dalla Rosa’s An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life | Meanjin
Allison Chhorn’s The Plastic House 
| Rough Cut
Daisuke Miyazaki’s Tourism | Rough Cut
Lina Maria Mannheimer’s Mating | Running Dog (with Michael Sun)



FICTION AND POETRY 

 
Terms and Conditions | Running Dog
See You Tomorrow | Kill Your Darlings (from COLLISIONS)
Kids | Going Down Swinging
Spellcasting | LIMINAL 
halcyon hurts | Cordite Poetry Review