Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Munaweera’s writing is everywhere remarkable: a concentrated lyricism that is supple, and at the same time, muscular.

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.

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

In Stitches by Anthony Youn is a memoir chronicling Youn’s journey from a nerdy Korean American childhood in the rural midwest (Greenville, MI; population: 7945) to becoming a plastic surgeon.