Author Don Lee’s first short story collection, Yellow, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was called by the Los Angeles Times an “unusually complete portrait of contemporary…

Dear Agony Agent: I have a day job and have written a novel in my spare time. I don’t have any established publishing connections. What’s the best way for me…

On Saturday, March 31, I took the train from New York City to Pleasantville, to interview the Thai artist and film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He was deep in post-production on…

It would be performance art—a bit like doing brownface, except not. The idea thrilled him as soon as it was proposed by his editors. He was to go to a…

The Nick Carter-Killmaster espionage thrillers were published at the rate of baseball cards (1964-1990), so it’s easy to forgive a little repetition. Trademarked by Conde Nast, the titlular hero also…

AFTER 1989 is a series that reexamines the intersection of race and pop culture during the ’90s. Traces of India were scarce in the pop soundscape of ’90s America, and…

AFTER 1989 is a series that reexamines the intersection of race and pop culture during the ’90s. For dedicated fashionistas, the 1990s will always be remembered as a heyday of…

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I take for granted the fact that a diaspora can mean home is anywhere. It’s easiest for me to think of international artists who call New York home, but I…

I have a theory about the outsized popularity of stationery in Japan. Because children are forced to keep summer diaries between school semesters through elementary school, they’re inculcated in short-form,…

My favorite nonfiction of 2011 was Broken Republic, a collection of three essays by Arundhati Roy that later came out in the United States under the title Walking with the…

For at least a few weeks now on the radio, I’ve been hearing “Princess of China,” Coldplay’s new song featuring Rihanna. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a catchy, if…

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Tania James is the author of the novel Atlas of Unknowns and the short story collection Aerogrammes, the title story of which was a finalist for Best American Short Stories…