For decades, fans have been enamored by the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and George R.R. Martin’s “Games of Thrones,” which are largely meant […]
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Japanese British Author Kazuo Ishiguro Awarded Nobel Prize
Kazuo Ishiguro has just been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, according to the New York Times. The Japanese British author has penned modern classics and tour de […]
Anna Akana Tells About New Book ‘So Much I Want to Tell You’
YouTube star Anna Akana is jumping out of the screen and onto the page — and getting even more personal — in her new book, “So Much I Want […]
George Takei Is Producing A Graphic Novel About His Japanese Internment Experience
George Takei is producing a graphic novel about his family’s experience in Japanese internment camps during World War II. Readers will see the story through the eyes of a […]
Add These 10 Books To Your Summer Reading List
It’s that beautiful time of year when all we want to do is kick back in the sun and read. When it comes to choosing a book to cozy […]
Obama Wants Malia To Read Asian American Feminist Literature
In true Obama fashion, the president — a noted book lover — sat down with the New York Times last week to discuss what books mean to him. Obama has […]
Venturing into the world of the Wangs: A conversation with author Jade Chang
“I am very interested in people,” Los Angeles native and novelist Jade Chang told Kore on a preternaturally hot SoCal afternoon as she sat down to discuss her highly […]
Pulitzer-winning Nguyen longlisted for National Book Award
Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last spring for his novel “The Sympathizer,” is now in the running for a nonfiction National Book Award. Nguyen’s […]
150 years of Chinese American identity, as told by ‘The Fortunes’
What is Chinese, what is American, and what is Chinese American? Peter Ho Davies, in his new novel “The Fortunes,” unraveling through 150 years, writes about the emergence – and […]
‘Tong Wars’ explores history of Chinese American immigrant gangs
A tale of violence between rival Chinese immigrant fraternities, or tongs, spans from the late 1800s to the Prohibition era in Scott D. Seligman’s “Tong Wars: The Untold Story […]
Asian American girls rule in Sarah Kuhn’s ‘Heroine Complex’
In Sarah Kuhn’s fantastical world of supernatural humans and demon portals in an otherwise-modern-day San Francisco, Asian American women are the ones leading the charge in the fight against […]
Top 4 Summer Must-Reads
DIAMOND HEAD When Chinese-Hawaiian American author Cecily Wong was a child, she came upon her mother crying after a phone conversation arguing with her own mother in Hawaii. She […]
Chang-rae Lee a Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com Novelist Chang-rae Lee is among 30 finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014 for his dystopian […]
Celeste Ng on How to Take Female Asian Writers Out of Your Blind Spot
In Western society, the voice of the books we read are normally from, well, white men. That’s what author Celeste Ng came across while promoting her book Everything I Never Told […]
5 Asian Authors Who Should Be Taught in Every High School
Hamlet. Gatsby. Odysseus. If you’ve grown up in the American education system, these are all names that you’re probably very familiar with. After all, we spent our high school […]