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Kim Liao
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The Verdant Heart of a Mythic Neighborhood: Cleyvis Natera’s Neruda on the Park
In Natera’s masterful debut novel, a simple New York City park becomes the verdant heart of a mythic neighborhood, where fire escapes are like golden staircases and the community goodwill of friends and neighbors becomes a nurturing flame that sustains…
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A Dreamscape of Longing: Two Big Differences by Ian Ross Singleton
Zina’s observations of her time in Detroit crystallize both a feeling of otherness and a wry critique of the young American activists who celebrated socialist ideas without fully appreciating the legacy of Soviet rule in Ukraine.
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Expunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
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So Funny It Kills: Getting Serious with Leland Cheuk
Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN.
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The Lucky Ones Are Those Who Do Not Disappear
Pachico offers is an anthropological view of small, beautifully evoked human experiences—an ethnography of survival, memory, and nostalgia.
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Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
Kim Liao reviews Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan today in Rumpus Books.
