Topic “Books Section”

Books: Loving Monstrosities

Lysley Tenorio’s debut short story collection Monstress takes us through the metropolis of the San Francisco Bay Area to wasteland cities in central California.

By: Jenny Yap | Posted: Wed, Feb 15th- 11:44am | Under: Lysley Tenorio, Monstress, Books Section

Portrait of the Artist as a City

Between the lines of Carlos Villa's artwork is a Filipino American history of migrants, empire, and selfhood -- but only if you look closely.

By: Manan Desai | Posted: Thu, Feb 9th- 5:02pm | Under: Carlos Villa, Integrity of Spaces, Theo Gonzalves, Across the Desk, Books Section

Books: Small Preservations

Anita Desai’s latest volume, The Artist of Disappearance, consists of a trio of novellas set in a changing Indian landscape.

By: Eric Zhang | Posted: Wed, Feb 8th- 12:32pm | Under: Anita Desai, Artist of Disappearance, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Virtual Identities

Luminarium, in all its girth, is meditating on the dyad of reality and the virtual, and on the postmodern dilemma of not being able to distinguish between the two.

By: Marites L. Mendoza | Posted: Wed, Jan 25th- 1:47pm | Under: Alex Shakar, Luminarium, Books Section

Books: Warrior Poet

There is a certain catalyzing style that comes of utter fearlessness, and the poet Bao Phi has cornered it with his debut poetry collection, Sông I Sing.

By: Jane Y. Kim | Posted: Wed, Jan 18th- 11:06am | Under: Bao Phi, Song I Sing, Books Section

Books: After the 1993 Mumbai Riots

The World We Found is Thrity Umrigar's sixth novel and a rumination on the effects of the '93 Mumbai riots on four friends.

By: Anisha Sridhar | Posted: Wed, Jan 11th- 1:46pm | Under: The World We Found, Thrity Umrigar, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Teenage Existential Angst

Fifteen-year-old Tina is thrown for a loop when her best friend since kindergarten deserts her and starts hanging out with the popular kids. Alone but defiant, Tina chooses to spend her time on her existentialist diary.

By: Anisha Sridhar | Posted: Wed, Jan 4th- 11:22am | Under: Keshni Kashyap, Mari Araki, Tina's Mouth, Books Section

Books: The Monkey King as Crime Suspect

Gerritsen's long experience in the crime genre comes through in a tightly paced, well-plotted story.

By: Claire Light | Posted: Wed, Dec 21st- 1:08pm | Under: Isles, Rizzoli, Tess Gerritsen, The Silent Girl, Books Section

10 Notable Asian American Books of 2011

Our books section writers read everything. Seriously. And if the book is calling Asian America's name, we are so on it.

By: Abigail Licad | Posted: Thu, Dec 15th- 12:53pm | Under: A Tiger in the Kitchen, Amir, Cheryl Lu-Lien, Dhaka Dust, Dilruba Ahmed, Francis Fukuyama, GB Tran, Gregory White Smith, Inside Out and Back Again, Julie Otsuka, Khalil, Leche, R. Zamora Linmark, Samuel Park, Steven Naifeh, Thanhha Lai, The Buddha in the Attic, The Origins of Political Order, This Burns My Heart, Van Gogh: The Life, Vietnamerica, Zahras Paradise, Books Section, Comics, Fiction, Gift Guide, Reviews

Books: Star-Crossed Lovers

This Burns My Heart heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

By: Abigail Licad | Posted: Wed, Dec 7th- 11:38am | Under: Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart, Books Section

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