In The Shadow Hero, writer Gene Luen Yang and illustrator Sonny Liew tell an origin story of an American-born Chinese boy who grows up to become a superhero.

Heroism defines much of what happens in
comic books. But the lines between hero and villain may depend on who tells the story.

Wen Jin offers a kind of metaphoric and literal translation primer
for looking at multiculturalism: a way to consider narratives about things
Asian found in American popular culture.

In this collection of short stories,
Ogawa creates a world that is unsettlingly quotidian.

In writing about India, Eleni Gage hasn't
been able to avoid some of the more obvious traps. Her novel falls into the
shopworn travelogue theme in which India is exotic and therefore can school
non-natives in the practice of becoming decent human beings.