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These Three Things

These Three Things

 

Thanhha Lai’s 2011 National Book Award-winning young adult novel Inside Out and Back Again is the story of Ha, an adolescent Vietnamese girl who lives in Saigon during the Vietnam War. When the North...

Cathlin Goulding | Tue, Jan 29th- 6:04pm | books section, Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai, Books, Books Section, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
The Descendants

The Descendants

By Cathlin Goulding and Abigail Licad

To commemorate Hyphen’s 10th year in print, we selected 10 emerging young authors from various genres and asked them to reflect on writers they admire. Their responses attest to the depth and richness...

Abigail Licad a... | Wed, May 16th- 11:53am | Bao Phi, cathy che, jenny zhang, julia kuo, kimberly koga, margaret rhee, Rahul Mehta, Rina Ayuyang, Samuel Park, Books, Books Section, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
Book Review: 'Leche' by R. Zamora Linmark

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.

Claire Light | Sat, Nov 5th- 3:28pm | Leche, R. Zamora Linmark, Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011
Book Review: 'The Good Muslim' by Tahmima Anam

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.

Mosarrap Hossai... | Sat, Nov 5th- 3:29pm | Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011
Book Review: 'Partitions' by Amit Majmudar

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. 

Nawaaz Ahmed | Sat, Nov 5th- 3:31pm | Amit Majmudar, Partitions, Books, Books Section, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011
Top Three: Charles Yu

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?

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

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.

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

Double Crossings

During her residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, cartoonist Thi Bui came upon GB Tran’s graphic novel Vietnamerica. Bui herself was hard at work on a graphic novel that explored the legacies of the Vietnam War, but unlike her project,...

Books Section | Wed, Nov 9th- 12:14pm | cartoonists, GB Tran, graphic novels, Thi Bui, Vietnamerica, Books, Books Section, Comics, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011
Book Review: 'Hiroshima in the Morning' by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

Book Review: 'Hiroshima in the Morning' by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s memoir maps the author’s physical and psychological journey to Hiroshima.

Mosarrap Hossai... | Tue, Aug 23rd- 11:58am | hiroshima in the morning, rahna reiko rizzuto, Books, Books Section, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011
Book Review: 'Adamantine' by Shin Yu Pai

Book Review: 'Adamantine' by Shin Yu Pai

An obsession with material things pervades Shin Yu Pai's beautiful poems.

Vernon Ng | Thu, Sep 8th- 11:02pm | adamantine, poetry, shin yu pai, Books, Books Section, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011
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