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The Fencesitter's Dilemma August 28, 2023
The opening scene in Randall Park’s directorial debut Shortcomings is a film within a film, in which an Asian couple buys a hotel as a show of power after being snubbed by a racist concierge. The scene is a direct allusion to the film that started th...
The Mixed Metaphor September 29, 2022
It remains a very open question whether the disparate immigrant populations huddled under the umbrella of Asian American — a term coined by student activists at Berkeley in 1968 — have enough in common to justify a shared politics or even a shared id...
Hua Hsu Is True to the Game September 21, 2022
Hsu, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is an inveterate collector — of books, yes, but also of music and movies, relics and memories. His new book, Stay True, is a memoir with a tragedy at its center: the killing of his close friend, Ken, during a ro...
