Topic “Reviews”

Books: What's Wrong with a Guilty Pleasure?

Let there be no doubt: Witches of East End is cheesy. Seriously cheesy.

By: Mia Nakaji Monnier | Posted: Thu, Jun 14th- 8:07pm | Under: Melissa de la Cruz, Witches of East End, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Taking the Waters

In writing about India, Eleni Gage hasn't been able to avoid some of the more obvious traps. Her novel falls into the shopworn travelogue theme in which India is exotic and therefore can school non-natives in the practice of becoming decent human...

By: Jee Yoon Lee | Posted: Thu, Jun 7th- 11:01am | Under: Eleni N. Gage, Other Waters, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: India's Greedy Middle Class

Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga’s second book Last Man in Tower skillfully builds to the final conflict right underneath your feet brick by brick, until you’re forced to retreat to the roof teetering on the precipice before he...

By: Jenny Yap | Posted: Thu, May 31st- 1:56pm | Under: Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Online Exclusive: Kimchi in Translation

When I first heard that PBS was coming out with a TV series called Kimchi Chronicles, I was really stoked. I thought it was going to be all about kimchi: how great it is, how many different varieties there are, how it goes with any...

By: Kheedim Oh | Posted: Wed, Aug 15th- 8:07pm | Under: Jean-Georges Vongerichten, kimchi, Mama O's, PBS, Online Exclusive, Food, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012, Reviews, TV

Books: In the Aftermath of War

Phan's gifts are considerable, and the novel is at its best in exposing the dark underside of family relationships while simultaneously creating many sympathetic, realistic characters.

By: Jee Yoon Lee | Posted: Thu, May 10th- 8:25am | Under: Aimee Phan, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: You Can Go Home Again

What happens when you try to go back to where you came from? Is it truly a homecoming, or are you a stranger in a world that’s changed in your absence?

By: Maurene Goo | Posted: Mon, May 14th- 8:03am | Under: Aimee Suzara, Carlos Bulosan, Hanggang Sa Muli, James Constantino Bautista, Jeff Rice, Jessica Haggedorn, Marivi Solen Blanco, Reni R. Roxas, Toni M. Bajado, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Gitmo Chic

Gilvarry reels us into what at first seems like an absurdist, post-modern satire on the endless “war on terror.”

By: Manan Desai | Posted: Fri, Apr 20th- 12:23pm | Under: Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Survivors, Broken People, and the Lonely

Lee explores and highlights several aspects of Koreans and Korean Americans that are never discussed outside of the confines of those cultures.

By: Noah Cho | Posted: Thu, Apr 12th- 7:49am | Under: Drifting House, Krys Lee, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: Flip for a Wish

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.

By: Claire Light | Posted: Thu, Apr 5th- 8:14am | Under: E.C. Myers, Fair Coin, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Books: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women

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.

By: Meeta Kaur | Posted: Wed, Mar 21st- 11:53am | Under: Ayesha Mattu, InshAllah, love, Nura Maznavi, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

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