In an era of book-to-film adaptations a la Hidden Figures or book-to-TV adaptations like The Handmaid’s Tale, Jimin Han’s debut novel, A Small Revolution, spins the trend on its head by reading, instead, like a literary adaptation of a miniseries, a visual and visceral journey through some of storytelling’s most familiar tropes: love, innocence, loss of innocence; violence, corruption, deception; duty to country, to others, to self; and personal truths versus reality.

Hyphen's Joyce Chen talks with Jeff Chang about his new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America.

David Mura tells Hyphen about his writing process, what first prompted his interest in Asian American issues, and why it is important for writers of color to take ownership of their identities.

Books reviewer Joyce Chen interviews author Peter Tieryas Liu about his first novel, Bald New World.

Arvin Chen’s sophomore film, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, debuted at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. He describes his process in character development, why he decided to include elements of magical realism, and how he inadvertently ended up casting two Taiwanese pop stars in the lead roles.

Kim Wong Keltner is determinedly disputing
Chua’s claims with her first work of nonfiction.

Dr.
Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s renowned chief medical correspondent, tackles the world of
fiction with his latest book, Monday
Mornings.

The impetus for So Yong Kim’s career in filmmaking was simple, and she’s aimed to keep it that way ever since.

Don Lee writes for Don Lee.

These days, masculinity in the media is taking on forms other than the Old Spice guy’s booming voice and log-rolling antics -- try ballet dancers and grand jetés in place of He-Man and power-punches. Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer is the kind of film that many Asian Americans have been long waiting to see following the questionable representations found in films like The Hangover and The Last Airbender (comical angry Asian mob bosses and sinister villains, respectively).

The story is familiar: Asian American high schoolers toil away night and day, shuttled between school in the daytime, cram schools at night and a multitude of extracurricular sports, music and art classes in between. Tack on a few leadership roles and a volunteer stint or two, and long before they’ve ever taken their first college course or sauntered into their first internship interview, these kids already have overflowing resumes.