Topic “Books Section”

Books: Japanese Picture Brides and 9/11

The Buddha in the Attic does far more than recover Japanese American history; it gestures toward a broader critique of US national culture.

By: Manan Desai | Posted: Wed, Nov 23rd- 11:27am | Under: Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, Books Section

Books: Iran's Disappeared

Zahra's Paradise is a fictionalized account about the search...

By: Anisha Sridhar | Posted: Wed, Nov 16th- 3:39pm | Under: Amir, Khalil, Zhahra's Paradise, Books Section

Books: Return to Vietnam

“A man without history is a tree without roots” -- so begins Vietnamerica, a mesmerizing and moving graphic memoir by Gia-Bao Tran.

By: Nawaaz Ahmed | Posted: Wed, Nov 9th- 10:30am | Under: GB Tran, graphic novel, Vietnamerica, Books Section

Book Review: 'Leche' by R. Zamora Linmark

Fans of the Asian American classic Rolling the R's are in luck: R. Zamora Linmark's frenetic meditation on Hawaiian transnational teenagerhood is finally sequeled.

By: Claire Light | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 3:28pm | Under: Leche, R. Zamora Linmark, Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011

Book Review: 'The Good Muslim' by Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim narrates the aftermath of the birth of Bangladesh as a new nation in 1971.

By: Mosarrap Hossai... | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 3:29pm | Under: Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011

Book Review: 'Partitions' by Amit Majmudar

It’s 1947, and the last trains bearing the displaced between the soon-to-be nations of India and Pakistan have left in the midst of raging floods of communal violence.

By: Nawaaz Ahmed | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 3:31pm | Under: Amit Majmudar, Partitions, Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011

Top Three: Charles Yu

We asked Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon): What are the best stories of survival?

By: Charles Yu | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 2:12pm | Under: Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011

CON-VERSE-SATIONS

With so many poetry-phobes who claim to just not “get” poems, we decided it was high time to devote some much-deserved attention to poetry.

By: Abigail Licad a... | Posted: Thu, Nov 10th- 2:07pm | Under: Nick Carbo, poetry, Timothy Liu, Victoria Chang, Books, Books Section, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011

Books: Children's Book Set in War-time Shanghai

Imaginatively illustrated using a mix of paper-cut collages, sketches, portraits and old family photographs, The House Baba Built by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young tells the story of the author's childhood in war-time Shanghai.

By: Anisha Sridhar | Posted: Wed, Nov 2nd- 10:21am | Under: Caldecott Medal, Ed Young, The House Baba Built, Books Section

How to Be South Asian in America. (Not.)

In June 2002, Schenectady’s mayor set out to recruit Indo-Guyanese immigrants from Queens to his rust-belt city three hours North. What did it mean for city officials to be actively “looking for a new ethnic group”?

By: Manan Desai | Posted: Tue, Jul 3rd- 8:41pm | Under: anupama jain, south asian, Across the Desk, Books Section

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