The critic, journalist, and essayist has two new books just out—one a meditation on two anti-terrorist trials and what they tell us about our post-9/11 world (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny...
We continue coverage of Arizona as we turn to the cultural boycott of the state. Today, the Asian American Writers' Workshop launched a website called wordstrike.net where over...
And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women -- the first English anthology of Pakistani women writers -- and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry -- the...
Kundiman, a group founded in 2004 to support the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry, recently established a new book publication prize for Asian American poets. JANINE OSHIRO, winner of the...
The legendary Asian American poet will join us to read from a work that’s been 13 years in the making—-a harrowing and heartbreaking 70-poem series on the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. With Wing Tek Lum, author of...
When Irene Shen's husband of 30 years walks out on her, she says, Good riddance, only to learn hours later that he's been killed in a car accident. This compels Irene to reconnect with her three successful yet...
Join us as we explore a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history through manga, Japanese comics. A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts features issues of the renowned manga journal Garo during a period of...
Ken Chen won this year’s Yale Younger Poets prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in America. He became the first Asian American man to win the award, which has been given annually since 1919 to writers...
Asian America is only 40 years old, if by that you mean the term and the concept of a multi-ethnic movement based in racial solidarity. A new cultural history of Asian American activism in the ‘60s and ‘70s argues that...
How much does a Big Mac cost? How about $200? That’s the true cost of a burger, according to a new book about how our market-driven society sets prices that have nothing to with the real value of things. Tune in for a...
