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"The first collection by Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the poems evoke both intimate conversations and provocative monologues that allow him to explore the complexities of being a queer Samoan in the United States..." University…

Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who have roots in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Some of the poets represented include, Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri. Poets…

One of my favorite books is "Stories of Your Life and Others," a science fiction short story collection by Ted Chiang. This may be oddly specific, but science fiction short stories are probably my favorite things to read, and Ted Chiang's are easily…

"In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over…

A recent book by an Asian American author which I loved was Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, which won this year's National Book Award. Reviews for this book have been quite polarized, and when I read it with my English class last semester I was the only…

Kevin Kwan takes the reader into a world no one has ventured into, one laced with both privacy and opulence. Crazy Rich Asians gives us a tease into the life of the “über-rich” in East Asia, mansions, private planes and all their glory. It is told in…

“Men without women, as much as some of it’s stories seem random and purposeless, is a wonderful analysis on the effect love has on individuals. There are many instances it shows the mental and physical consequences of love and lust. It also is a…

“It’s written by an Asian American female author (we love those) with an uncanny ability to poignantly capture the unspoken and often overlooked feelings of growing up as an Asian American in STEM (drawing from her own life!!) Her unpretentious prose…

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories is a book written by prominent Asian American author Ken Liu. It tells the story told through the lens of young bi-racial boy named Jack, who has a white father and a Chinese mother. The story tells the…

A bemusedly yet deliberately written Vietnamese-American novel emphasizing the theme of duality through love and betrayal, Occident yet Oriental identities, and the importance or lack thereof of freedom. It gives a new perspective of what we take for…