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Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary by June Yip [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese

Envisioning TaiwanThrough close readings of “nativist” Taiwanese literature of the 1960s and 1970s and of the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, Yip offers a distinct national Taiwanese identity independent of historical Chinese...

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice edited by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutiérrez [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Undivided RightsFor women of color, the fight for civil rights includes equitable reproductive rights. Both coercive sterilization and invasive long-term birth-control technologies have historically undermined the reproductive rights of women of color. Such practices continue...

Magic Seeds: A Novel by V.S. Naipaul [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Indian African, Repost, South Asian

Magic SeedsNobel Prize-winner Naipaul continues Willie Chandran’s life story from Half a Life. After 18 years in Africa, Chandran is in Berlin with his more capable sister but ends up in India as...

Blood and Soap: Stories by Linh Dinh [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Vietnamese American

Blood and SoapWhile English is not the native tongue of Saigon-born Dinh, his mastery of his adopted language is undeniable. Throughout this most eclectic collection of shorts – some beyond short, including one-sentence stories...

The Disinherited by Han Ong + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

disinheritedGenius Han Ong: The Outsider American Han Ong, who made international headlines as one of the MacArthur Foundation’s elite Genius Grant recipients of 1997, refers to his second novel, The Disinherited, as his “imagined homecoming”...

The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Latina/o/x, Repost, South Asian American

Zigzag WayAn interesting departure for Desai, who turns to Mexico to tell the story of a hapless Boston graduate student who accompanies his ambitious girlfriend abroad. While wandering, he discovers a lost part of his...

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta [in AsianWeek]

28 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Maximum CityBombay plays the starring role in this entertaining (at times disturbing) epic memoir by a South Asian American writer who returns to the world’s largest city – now called Mumbai – with his London-raised...

An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy [in AsianWeek]

08 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost

Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire“So may I clarify that tonight I speak as a subject of the American empire? I speak as a slave who presumes to criticize her king,” Roy says...

The Disinherited by Han Ong + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

disinheritedReturning to the Real World After the MacArthur Grant Han Ong, who made international headlines as one of the MacArthur Foundation’s elite “Genius Grant” recipients of 1997, refers to his second novel, The Disinherited, as...

Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from the Progessive Magazine by David Barsamian [in AsianWeek]

10 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Louder Than BombsA compilation of 21 interviews (two with the recently deceased Edward Said) with some of today’s leading lefties, including quite a number who do our community proud: New Left Review...

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost

dew-breakerHorror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker When I mention to a dear friend in England, who happens to be an excellent fiction writer herself, that I’m preparing...

Love After War edited by Wayne Karlin and Ho Anh Thai [in AsianWeek]

06 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Repost, Short Stories, Southeast Asian, Translation, Vietnamese

Love After WarThis behemoth anthology – the largest collection of its kind – made up of 45 Vietnamese authors of various backgrounds, is divided into five thematic sections that represent five contemporary periods of...

Chiffon Saris by Feroza Jussawalla [in AsianWeek]

06 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian American, Poetry, Repost, South Asian American

Chiffon SarisA collection of poems that capture the multiplicity of being tied to Indian roots while living as an American in the borders of where Mexico and the United States intersect. Review: "New and...

The Caprices by Sabina Murray + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Short Stories

capricesWriting from a Different Place: A Profile of 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Sabina Murray When Sabina Murray first heard that she had won the prestigious 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for her short story collection The Caprices, she thought...

Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints by Anita Pratap [in AsianWeek]

28 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Afghan, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, Sri Lankan

Island of BloodThe paperback edition of an important title that explores the frontline news happening in a complicated, troubled, often misunderstood part of the world where war, terrorism and endless ethnic conflict have ravaged...

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism edited by Jeffrey Lesser [in AsianWeek]

28 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost, South American

Searching for Home AbroadA unique collection of essays that explores the experience of being Japanese in Brazil (during the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of Japanese immigrated to Brazil)...

Literary Occasions: Essays by V. S. Naipaul, introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

Literary OccasionsEleven essays capture almost a half-century of Nobel Prize-winning Naipaul’s literary life. The final essay, “Two Worlds,” which he begins and ends by invoking Proust, is the lecture he gave when accepting the Nobel...

The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Sri Lankan

Rice MotherIn another British import of a debut novel, Manicka draws from her own history to create a family saga of four generations and 70 years. At the family’s core is its matriarch, Lakshmi, who...

The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian

Opium ClerkBorn Hiranyagabha Chakraborti in 1857 during the time of the Indian Mutiny (when Indians rebelled against the ruling British) on the same day of his father’s death, Hiran (as he comes to be called)...

Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Dream JungleHer Bum Is on Fire: Jessica Hagedorn debuts with her latest novel After years of chatting on the phone and sending various e-mails back and forth, I finally got the chance to meet writer extraordinaire...

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