Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War edited by Anthony Arnove [in AsianWeek]
20 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Iraqi, Nonfiction, Repost
“When people asked me if I would edit an updated edition of Iraq Under Siege, my answer has always been ‘no’ – that I hoped the book would soon become historically obsolete...
The youngest of three gorgeous sisters is confronted by a man who claims to be the love-child of the oldest sister. Family secrets, family expectations, family bonds are all challenged.
Review: 
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The U.S. government’s need for scapegoats takes a chilling twist in Miyake’s effective debut novel, in which Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and the concentration camps are reopened. This time, the country’s...
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Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf"...
Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
Review: <a...
The Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...
Lush, gorgeous collection of garden photos. The Asian answer to all those house books on too many coffee tables.
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It’s no surprise that Hollywood has apparently snapped up film rights to this sweeping historical saga, filled with all the exotica you ever tried to avoid – the geisha, the samurai, the...
If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...
Get out of the way, Arthur Golden. Here’s the genuine voice who wants to set the story straight after Golden betrayed her confidence in his tawry, overexoticized rip-off, Memoirs of a Geisha. Oh, do NOT get...
From the author of the National Book Award-winner, Waiting, another spare, disarming, amazing novel about trying to survive life in post-Mao China. Jian Wan, a graduate student in literature, cares for his hospitalized mentor, a professor,...
An ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...