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In Search of Queer Ancestors
“If we didn’t move to America, you wouldn’t be like this,” my mom told me casually, one afternoon a few years ago. We were chatting together while walking down the streets of Manhattan. She was...
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Creating Your Own Mythology: A Conversation with Meng Jin
“It is a small face, with small, plain features, so plain, in fact, that the face resembles a blank paper, on which anything can be drawn.” This is how we meet Su Lan—a talented, young physicist on...
View ArticleUp to the Challenge: A Conversation with Ricco Villanueva Siasoco
Ricco Villanueva Siasoco’s debut The Foley Artist is a collection of nine interconnected stories that is hard to sum up with a single neat phrase. As Alexander Chee puts it, the book is “like a circus...
View ArticleTranslating the City: A Conversation with Poupeh Missaghi
“Looking for certain narratives of backwardness and victimhood, they pay attention to sociopolitics instead of aesthetics, instead of not alongside. A neo-orientalism bolstering the existing narrative...
View ArticleThe Novel and Technologies of Empire: A Conversation with Gina Apostol
EDITOR’S NOTE: A little over a year ago, literary scholar Paul Nadal and the author Gina Apostol met at Café Cluny in Manhattan’s West Village to talk about Apostol’s latest novel Insurrecto. Hailed...
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E.J. Koh and the Pursuit of Translation
While speaking with E. J. Koh about her luminous new memoir, The Magical Language of Others, there was a point in our conversation where she was searching for the words to describe the joy of...
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Part I: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Six Writers on Poetry and...
“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” Audre Lorde’s lines from her poem “New Year’s Day” serve as a charge and an inspiration to a month of national poetry programming titled “Poetry and...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Felix K. Nesi
Introduction and interview by Lara Norgaard Bacalah hasil wawancara ini dalam aslinya versi bahasa Indonesia aslinya di sini The story began with soldiers in West Timor telling a little boy to scale a...
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Part II: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Four Writers on Poetry and...
“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” Audre Lorde’s lines from her poem “New Year’s Day” have served as a charge and an inspiration to a month of national poetry programming titled “Poetry and...
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Keeping the Faith: Mass without the masses
In the weeks leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City, Father Patrick Longalong found himself caught in the middle of conflicting opinions among his churchgoers. “It was a divided...
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Exit West: An Interview with Ishmael Reed
Over the last six decades, Ishmael Reed has written ten books of poetry, including Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon or D Hexorcism of Noxon D Awful (1970) and Chattanooga (1973), twelve novels,...
View ArticleBrilliant Women: A Conversation with Catherine Chung
The arc of a story, or so we are taught, follows a hero through rise, climax, and fall. Years ago, Catherine Chung heard a different theory—a suggestion that this approach to narrative was a rather...
View ArticleGrief Became an Artifact: An Interview with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection Ghost Of, published in 2018, contains a series of family photographs that were mutilated by the poet’s brother Oliver before his suicide—he cut himself out from...
View ArticleHow to Dismantle an American Myth: An Interview with C Pam Zhang
Set during the Gold Rush in a reimagined American West, C Pam Zhang’s debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold follows a pair of Chinese siblings, Lucy and Sam, as they roam the hills after their...
View ArticleThe Silence Between Our Words: An Interview with Alexandra Chang
Alexandra Chang’s sophisticated and compelling debut novel, Days of Distraction, follows a young Chinese American woman as she becomes aware of the emotional and psychological complexities inherent in...
View ArticleMake Yourself Vulnerable: A Conversation with Jenny Zhang
Among the many admirable patterns found in Zhang’s writing, my favorite is her use of malaprops as titles. Her first book, a poetry collection called Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, was published in...
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Home Is Where Your Friends Are: An Interview with Frances Cha
The last time I rode the subway into Manhattan, in early March, it was to catch up with Frances Cha. Seven or eight years had passed since we’d last seen each other face-to-face, and it felt like we...
View ArticlePorochista Khakpour and the Refugee’s Continued Journey
“Life is really intense right now,” says Porochista Khakpour, speaking from her home in Forest Hills, Queens. “I‘ve just gotten used to the sound of sirens twenty-four-seven. It’s pretty rare not to...
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The Wandering: A Conversation between Stephen Epstein and Intan Paramaditha
Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha spoke with Stephen Epstein, winner of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant for his work on her novel The Wandering (Harvill Secker/ Penguin Random House UK 2020). In this...
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Sisters and Siblings in the Struggle
How can Black and Asian American feminists engage in a critical dialogue on the impacts of COVID-19 in their respective communities? What can we learn from the long history of solidarity between our...
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