Books & Literature

Covers of GHOST FOREST and SEEING GHOSTS
Seeing Ghosts in a Ghost Forest: A Review of Pik-Shuen Fung’s Ghost Forest and Kat Chow’s Seeing Ghosts
Two books that wrestle with the complexities of haunting
Kathy Chow
September 30, 2021
SEPTEMBER FICTION: AT WAR WITH THE INSECTS
"According to the odds, he should’ve busted. The odds were on our side. But then he turned over the next card."
Eddie Malone
September 24, 2021
Economies of Harm:
A review of Anna Qu's Made in China
Joyce Chen
August 27, 2021
Noir and History
A Q&A with Naomi Hirahara
Jinah Kim
August 20, 2021
“If I could not be with my mother, I would be her": A Review of Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart
An elegy that attempts to capture the life a mother led
Jasmine Liu
June 14, 2021
Carving Home Out of Darkness: A Q&A with C Pam Zhang
Dana Liu
May 26, 2021
MAY FICTION: EXCERPT OF "VERSION ZERO" BY DAVID YOON
David Yoon
May 25, 2021
Cover of Pop Song
Adventures in Art and Intimacy with Larissa Pham: A Review of Larissa Pham's Pop Song
An essay collection that catalogs all the things that can combust us: relationships, art, sex, drugs and heartache
Emily Villanueva
May 22, 2021
Juggling Acts: A Review of Stacey Lee's Luck of the Titanic
Mary Malhotra
May 15, 2021
A Tale of Healing and Finding Identity After Displacement By War: A Review of Eric Nguyen's Things We Lost to the Water
The story of a Vietnamese community in America amidst its pain and joy
Cathy Duong
May 10, 2021
APRIL FICTION: RELATIONSHIP ADVICE
"What mattered was not the truth of the words themselves but rather how they made you feel."
Daniel Kuo
April 28, 2021
Alternative Forms of Therapy
Speaking with Michelle Zauner about her new memoir, Crying in H Mart
Willa Zhang
April 23, 2021
Cover of Speak Okinawa
An Overlooked American Story
A Q&A with Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of Speak, Okinawa 
Viviane Eng
March 13, 2021
FEBRUARY FICTION: THE HALF OF ME THAT'S NOT YOU
"Is marriage love?"  
Ashley Kim
February 22, 2021
Cover of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE
“I’m never not thinking about home and kinship”
Poet Ansley Moon interviews Sejal Shah about her new collection of essays, This Is One Way to Dance.
Ansley Moon
December 24, 2020

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