[4][5] Chew-Bose has written for publications including The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Hairpin, Rolling Stone, GQ, The New Inquiry, n+1, Interview, Paper, Hazlitt, and This Recording.

[6] In Nylon, Kristen Iverson described Chew-Bose as "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics";[7] in The Guardian, Sarah Galo said: "If millennials have an intelligentsia, Brooklyn-based writer Durga Chew-Bose is a member of it[, writing] thoughtful long reads on identity and culture that command readers’ attention.

[10] Taking its title from one of Virginia Woolf's diary entries[2] from 1931,[11] Chew-Bose's Too Much and Not the Mood is an essay collection[12] describing "the complications of growing up and establishing oneself...what it means to be a brown girl in a white world and 'the beautiful dilemma of being first-generation' Canadian.

"[14] Listing Too Much and Not the Mood among the 25 "Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017", Maris Kreizman said in New York Magazine's Vulture: "If you admire Maggie Nelson’s ability to combine the personal and the academic into a thrilling new art form, Durga Chew-Bose will be your next favorite writer.

"[13] In 2015, Chew-Bose cofounded the website Writers of Color with Buster Bylander,[16] Jazmine Hughes and Vijith Assar.