Review: Homeseeking by Karissa Chen features love, war and yuanfen
At 7 years old, Suchi meets Haiwen in their neighborhood in Shanghai. It’s 1938. The city is under…
January 10, 2025At 7 years old, Suchi meets Haiwen in their neighborhood in Shanghai. It’s 1938. The city is under…
I read 51 books in 2024. I’ve moderated book panels for five, written about 13 for work, and…
Marsh — short for Marshmallow because she’s “so sweet and soft” — hates her nickname but goes by…
Newlyweds Lewis and Wren are an unlikely couple. Lewis loves performing –– both in his personal life on…
When Jess starts her new analyst job at Goldman Sachs, the first face she sees belongs to Josh,…
In R.F. Kuang’s darkly humorous novel, “Yellowface,” a floundering writer endeavors to hold on to her new place…
When Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her first book, “The Woman Warrior” in 1976, she originally intended to publish it…
The first book-to-movie adaptation I remember seeing is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” My then-best…
In 2020, “American Dirt” a novel about the experiences of an undocumented Mexican woman and her son moving…
Confession: When I tell people that I’m reading a new book, what I really mean is that I…