Eric Lau

My consumption, incomplete.

Books

12

Current

1
  • Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the 21st Century / Bianca Mabute-Louie

2025

6
  • The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion
  • Living in Data / Jer Thorp
  • Killing Rage: Ending Racism / bell hooks
  • All About Love: New Visions / bell hooks
  • Time Is a Mother / Ocean Vuong
  • The Message / Ta-Nehisi Coates

2024

1
  • Anthropocene Reviewed / John Green

Before

4
  • The Stranger / Albert Camus
  • Crying in H Mart / Michelle Zauner
  • Data Feminism / Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
  • How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information / Alberto Cairo

Film

160

2025

34
  • Frances Ha
  • Arrival
  • The Good Shepherd
  • Patriots Day
  • Marvelous and the Black Hole
  • Always Be My Maybe
  • The Half of It
  • Marriage Story
  • Unbroken
  • Take Out
  • Closing Dynasty
  • To All the Boys: Always and Forever
  • To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • Before We Go
  • World War Z
  • White House Down
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Uncharted
  • 127 Hours
  • Anora
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  • Transformers
  • Pacific Rim
  • Battleship
  • The Help
  • The Cider House Rules
  • Life of Pi
  • Almost Famous
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • 42
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Perfect Days

2024

20
  • Interstellar
  • Midway
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • The Hunger Games
  • Legally Blonde
  • Clueless
  • Love in Taipei
  • Bottoms
  • The Lego Movie
  • Power Rangers (2017)
  • The Edge of Seventeen
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • A Family Affair
  • Inside Out 2
  • Dìdi
  • Return to Seoul
  • Past Lives
  • The Boy and the Heron

2023

9
  • Midsommar
  • Barbie
  • Oppenheimer
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Knives Out
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Before

97
  • Mean Girls
  • World Trade Center
  • Loving Vincent
  • Glory
  • Bao
  • 1917
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before
  • Hidden Figures
  • Inside Out
  • Turning Red
  • Soul
  • Up
  • WALL-E
  • Ratatouille
  • Cars
  • The Incredibles
  • Finding Nemo
  • Monsters, Inc.
  • Toy Story 2
  • A Bug's Life
  • Toy Story
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Spider-Man
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • Eternals
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • Black Widow
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home
  • Avengers: Endgame
  • Captain Marvel
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • Black Panther
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Doctor Strange
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Ant-Man
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Thor: The Dark World
  • Iron Man 3
  • The Avengers
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • Thor
  • Iron Man 2
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Iron Man
  • Ender's Game
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  • The Florida Project
  • Dunkirk
  • Lady Bird
  • Eighth Grade
  • The Truman Show
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Taxi Driver
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather Part II
  • Goodfellas
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Rocky IV
  • Rocky III
  • Rocky II
  • Rocky
  • Rambo III
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • First Blood
  • Downfall
  • Fury
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Inglorious Basterds
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Enemy at the Gates
  • Patton
  • Spirited Away
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Forrest Gump
  • Cast Away
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • School of Rock
  • Lincoln

Shows

13

2025

1
  • Veep

2024

2
  • Masters of the Air
  • Moral Orel

2023

1
  • American Born Chinese

Before

9
  • Last Chance High
  • Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
  • Jet Lag: The Game
  • School Babysitters
  • Attack on Titan
  • Atypical
  • Silicon Valley
  • Band of Brothers
  • The Pacific

Documentaries

2
  • AlphaGo / DeepMind
  • The Fallen of World War II / Neil Halloran

Talks

7
  • Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction / Lupe Fiasco
  • Web Without Walls / Dan Abramov
  • Rethinking reactivity / Rich Harris
  • Computer, build me an app / Rich Harris
  • The beauty of data visualization / David McCandless
  • What the heck is the event loop anyway? / Philip Roberts
  • Design is a Search Problem / Mike Bostock

Papers

3
  • Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display / Johanna Drucker
  • Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow's "Schulstatistik" and the Racial Composition of Germany / Andrew Zimmerman
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective / Donna Haraway

Journalism

11
  • The Blast Effect / The Washington Post
  • The Firefighter With O.C.D. and the Vaccine He Believed Would Kill Him / The New York Times
  • The Anti-Social Century / The Atlantic
  • The Agony of Texting With Men / The Atlantic
  • The Militia and the Mole / ProPublica
  • The Good Whale / The New York Times
  • The Deserter / The New York Times
  • Searching for Maura / The Washington Post
  • More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. / The Washington Post
  • Machine Bias / ProPublica
  • How does 'Hamilton,' the non stop, hip-hop Broadway sensation tap rap's master rhymes to blur musical lines? / The Wall Street Journal

Essays

4
  • The Worst Magazine In America / Nathan J. Robinson
  • AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism / Gareth Watkins
  • Surely You're a Creep, Mr. Feynman / Leila McNeill
  • The "Blob" Is Furious About Gaza. But That's Not Enough. / Josef Burton