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  Author, professor, and provocateur Amitava Kumar has a very specific question for New York City book clerks.
• I Am Your Mirror: O Zhang’s Blank, Visionary Billboards
  Following in the footsteps of Dorothea Lange, who photographed stoic, suffering faces during the Depression, the Chinese-born artist traveled across recession-worn America, capturing a different sort of face.
• Straddling Convention: The Erotic in Asian American Poetry
  Ocean Vuong, in search of the "new erotic," guest-curates a portfolio of poems in time for Valentine's Day.
• Excerpt: H.T. Tsiang's The Hanging on Union Square
  "Nut was hungry. Nut had to move." Originally self-published in 1935, this hallucinatory, quasi-experimental novel follows the peripatetic musings of a young man throughout a single day in Depression-era New York.
• Asian Chic
  The ‘90s saw Western designers outsourcing not just manufacturing, but inspiration, to Asia.