The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian
A fascinating, serpentine tale of a privileged Indian boy who at 15 is thrown out into the streets by the man he thought was his father, and how he becomes a chameleon re-inventor of himself in...
Collateral Damage
The Aug.13 issue of USA Today reports that more than 150 books that deal with Sept. 11 have already been or are about to be...
Journey to the East: Katy Robinson's search for her Korean family in A Single Square Picture
BOISIE, IDAHO — In 1977 at the age of 7, Kim Ji-yun left Seoul and arrived in...
Fox Girl takes readers back to post-Korean War “America Town,” where the abandoned, racially mixed children of U.S. soldiers fought for bare survival and Korean women continued to service occupying GIs in order to put food...
Over 60 years ago, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 – “a day that will live in infamy” as then-President Roosevelt named it – eventually led to the signing of Executive Order 9066...
Child's Play: The Writerly Life of Newbery Award-Winner Linda Sue Park
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When Linda Sue Park first received the call last spring that she had won the top honor in children’s literature –...
The follow-up to Gao’s Nobel Prize-winning Soul Mountain. At the request of his naked, white German lover in the relative freedom of a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao’s fictionalized counterpart...
Delightful, delicious story of a little girl whose parents own an always-open store (except for Christmas) that offers Chinese food, even on the Fourth of July. Certain that no one wants chow...
Linda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life
Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...
Powerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children.
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Feng’s title is ingeniously layered: “Screening Asian Americans” refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened – how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how...
This time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, read this introduction. His questions about identity – who defines it, how it’s defined, can...
Also from the PocketEssentials series. A quick guide to the man who single-handedly changed the face of martial arts films, from his San Francisco birth to his child actor days in Hong...
A thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the...
The welcome return of Dictee, a seminal Korean American classic – part autobiography, part history, part art, part experimentation.
The Dream of the Audience, with essays by Whitney Museum curator Lawrence R. Rinder and theorist/filmmaker Trinh...
Groundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism.
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A writer tries to reconstruct the life of a childhood acquaintance – an ex-combat nurse during Vietnam – after her sudden suicide.
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Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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