Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

E.C. Myers' debut novel Fair Coin is an instructive example of this attempt to bridge -- or perhaps simply to transcend -- the gap between ethnic YA and speculative YA.

Sometimes a book can weave its way into your consciousness so deeply that the characters and stories merge with you, mirroring back buried pieces of you, and expand your thinking in unimaginable ways.

In The Beautiful and the Damned, novelist and journalist Siddhartha Deb attempts what might seem impossible at first -- to create, through the stories of a few Indians, a portrait of the new India.

Ayad Akhtar’s first novel, American Dervish, is a coming-of-age story about a young American Muslim, Hayat Shah, who grows up in 1980s Milwaukee.