Transmission by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek]
25 Jun, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American
With way too many viruses trying to get into my inbox every day, reading Transmission has been something of a voyeuristic romp.
Arjun Mehta can’t believe his good luck when he lands a job in Silicon...
Organized religion is undoubtedly at the root of all man-made evil – Crusades, Holocaust, Middle East crisis, to name only a few. So how refreshing to see a book for young readers...
When the elephant walks, he sets off a chain of events that delightfully ends with a very crowded tree trunk filled with big scared animals looking down at one tiny...
When a little boy’s mother refuses to let him have a dog, he brings home a dragon instead. But the dragon is so badly behaved, that in the end, the...
In mid-15th-century Japan, Koji, half of a set of identical twins, has the chance to rise above his social status as a farmer’s son and become the apprentice to a revered dye maker. But...
Sure, other people’s parties can be loads of fun, especially when you get to experience things like “swamp jelly” and “ladybird cakes.” But when you’re about to have...
Flying 'Aloft' with Chang-rae Lee
Speaking in superlatives about Chang-rae Lee or his work seems somewhat cliché these days. All three of his novels, Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and his latest, Aloft, have been so lavishly...
An adaptation in English by a mega-award winning author/illustrator, 
A fictional diary that the young Princess Kokachin might have written in the late-13th century, when she traveled from the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan in her native...
A delightful tale – both comical and bittersweet – of a little cat who grows big, falls out a window, and gets lost. Outside in the big scary world, she is able...
A lonely red rubber ball is passed over by many, but finally finds a true friend. Delightful, fun pictures for the youngest readers.
Review: 
The Monkey King, one of the most popular figures in Chinese folklore, returns to entertain young children with his boastful, talented, ingenious, entertaining adventures. “Today, I am introducing our wonderful Monkey King...
Okay, so I've been known to get on a soapbox more often than not about inauthentic voices usurping other people's identities, i.e. white men writing as Asian women, especially sets me off – oh,...
Listening to the Voices on the Street: A Profile of Performance Artist & Novelist Heather Woodbury
What would eventually become What Ever: A Living Novel first began as a behemoth dare. In 1994, Heather Woodbury, a performance...
An inventive debut collection of interconnected short stories about one Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (no, not that one), an itinerant actor with a vague resemblance to a criminal whom he once portrayed...
While the premise of a young girl’s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising – if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called ‘war on terrorism’...
A humorous look at an endearing, rambunctious young boy’s promises of all the things he will not do on the very last day of...
When the carnival comes to town, all the engines help set up the tents and rides together. While Choo Choo Charlie doesn’t like being bossed around, he learns that even the smallest...
Even while his energetic young body is capable of many things, Little Badger still has much to learn from Old Badger’s love and experience.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/asianweek-2004-04-30-new-and-notable.pdf"...