2025: The Year of the Sophomore Novel
When it’s your first time doing something: trying a new hobby, accomplishing a big milestone, or even a…
by serenapuang December 25, 2025
When it’s your first time doing something: trying a new hobby, accomplishing a big milestone, or even a…
by serenapuang December 25, 2025
What would you do to live your dream? In “Katabasis,” the newest novel by R.F. Kuang, Cambridge Ph.D. student…
by serenapuang September 9, 2025
What is being an assistant language teacher in Japan really like? Sophia Puang weighs in with her experience…
by Sophia Puang August 20, 2025
At 7 years old, Suchi meets Haiwen in their neighborhood in Shanghai. It’s 1938. The city is under…
by serenapuang January 10, 2025
As some of you know, I’ve been settling in Baton Rouge, and Friday marked three weeks on the…
by serenapuang August 11, 2024
Marsh — short for Marshmallow because she’s “so sweet and soft” — hates her nickname but goes by…
by serenapuang July 9, 2024
First month in Korea As some of you know, I was recently awarded a fellowship to study Korean…
by serenapuang October 6, 2023
In R.F. Kuang’s darkly humorous novel, “Yellowface,” a floundering writer endeavors to hold on to her new place…
by serenapuang May 18, 2023
When Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her first book, “The Woman Warrior” in 1976, she originally intended to publish it…
by serenapuang April 12, 2023
The first book-to-movie adaptation I remember seeing is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” My then-best…
by serenapuang February 28, 2023