Tonight we devote the entire hour to airing stories from the queer Arab diaspora, recorded live from the March edition of Queer Memoir - an NYC-based storytelling event for the...
The Third World was a project, not a place. That’s the premise of Vijay Prashad’s newest book, a fascinating reconstruction of the movement of the world’s poor countries to establish an alternative global order during...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall is wrapping up her search for the 2007 Queens Poet Laureate, a three-year honorary position designed to promote appreciation for poetry in Queens. We will hear song from and talk...
Listen to a funny and fascinating interview with HARLEY SPILLER, whose collection of 10,000 Chinese restaurant menus was the main source for the 2005 exhibit “Have You Eaten Yet? The Chinese Restaurant in America” at...
What is Asian American art? The Asia Society is attempting an answer of sorts in a new exhibition, “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now”. The show presents a remarkably diverse—or is it disjointed?—collection of...
Another interview with a Filipino American literary luminary in honor of this weekend's conference on 100 years of Filipino American writing.
Last year, APF's Andrew Hsiao talked to the brilliant, edgy...
The Motel is the story of a chubby, 13-year old boy named Ernest Chin, who lives with his Chinese American family somewhere in suburbia. The Chins run an hourly-rate motel, a sexually charged environment where Ernest...
When president George W. Bush named an Axis of Evil in his 2002 state of the union address, he cast Iran, Iraq, and North Korea into the role of the enemy. Bush's UN envoy, John Bolton, later added Libya, Syria,...
Perhaps no book has had greater significance within Asian American literature than Maxine Hong Kingston’sThe Woman Warrior. Since its publication in 1976, the book has been widely read,...
They work in the most intimate spaces—homes—and yet, they remain the invisible backbone of New York’s economy. There are more than 200,000 domestic workers in the city—nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers—and...
