This is the second in a series of pieces related to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ghadar Party. Read the others: a short history of the movement…

Photographer Alan Chin’s current project documents the contemporary legacies of a long history of migration between China and the United States through families in the city of Toishan, in Guangdong…

This is the first in a series of pieces related to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ghadr Party, an anticolonial, anti-imperialist movement led by South Asian immigrants…

Gaiutra Bahadur was seven years old when she and her family left their village in Guyana to make a new home in New Jersey. The year was 1981. Their departure…

This is the final installment in a series of pieces related to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ghadar Party. Read the others: a short history of the…

Tung-Hui Hu, who goes by Hui-Hui, is a cool cat of many disciplines. He is the author of three collections of poetry, the recipient of many fellowships and residencies, and…

  1. Ditching   Lately it appears the water has been waiting for us to keep trying to make it across. The rivers and trenches glossed with light know we…

  9/11/11   Upon being asked to write a 9/11 poem, I consulted a recent National Book Award winner. I stood on the wide beach and asked the ocean for…

Earlier this year, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop honored the work of celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie. Since then, we’ve asked writers to engage critically with Rushdie and his novels. Here,…

Editor’s Note: The following essay has been published to coincide with the 12th anniversary of Agha Shahid Ali’s passing on December 8, 2001, and to recognize and celebrate the influence…

In much of her poetry, Tamiko Beyer writes of the relationship between the natural world and our bodies, invoking what she calls a queer::eco::poetics. Water winds its way through her…

Liao Yiwu never set out to be a dissident. In fact, the young Sichuanese did not engage in politics at all until the fateful dawn of June 4, 1989, when…

Below is a chapter from Phong Nguyen’s recently published work of fiction, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History. Mimicking the style of a history textbook, Nguyen crafts stories of…

Phong Nguyen is no historian—or so says the author himself of his latest work, which explores alternate histories of well-known historical figures. Indeed, at first glance, Nguyen’s newly published Pages…

The Counterculturalists is a new series in The Margins that looks at Asian American or ethnic identity as an alternative, rebellious, uncategorizable subculture, an avant-garde in both politics and aesthetics….

I never expected to write an essay whose title paired an extraordinary, fictional supervillain with a Chinese writer best known for his tales of ordinary Beijing life. And I doubt…

On February 20th, Chang-rae Lee joins AAWW at Chambers Fine Art for a special reading and discussion of On Such A Full Sea, moderated by novelist Catherine Chung. For more…

In late 10th-century Baghdad, a book-seller named Ibn al-Nadim (d. c 998) created a catalog of his holdings. His collection was extensive, covering a vast world of literary output, with…

The concept of the “yellow peril” is centuries old, and although today it brings to mind racist fears of East Asia, some of its first uses refer to West and…

Last week, the country’s largest literary nonprofit, the Poetry Foundation, caused a minor embolism in the Asian American poetry community when it published what it called a “sampler of Asian…