Tokyo New Wave actress Isuzu Yamada passed away on Monday, July 9, at the age of 95. Yamada was the first actress ever to receive the Order of Culture from…

There’s a terrible transgression out there, one so persistent and widespread that we—by which I mean people of Indian descent, and all people who believe it’s basic courtesy to spell…

Donghai to the core, Yeh Gum Pei had a diminutive physique and a distinctive personality. I was just a teen at a weenie roast when he yelled: “I ask for…

My father’s warehouse was close to the decayed parts of the harbor, which rambled on into the slums built by smugglers and sailors. Gnawed, Spanish-era residences, eminently decaying, were strewn…

Here are some farmers in a big field. Here is a mother with six kids. On this field were the Mamadas people—who were nomads, hunting and foresting little plots of…

Released in 2005, Tsai Ming-Liang’s The Wayward Cloud follows the odd and halting courtship between two occupants of an apartment complex—the stoic and melancholy young man, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-shen) and…

Part I of this interview, Ashok and Sheng Take Cover, is available here. To start off Part II, Ashok queries Sheng about a topic of high import.   So you…

Alif the Unseen, the fiction debut from graphic novelist G. Willow Wilson, is the story of an Arab-Indian programmer who leads an uprising in an unnamed Middle Eastern security state….

Inspired by The Letter Q, an anthology of notes written by queer writers to their younger selves, Poets.org asked several poets to respond with their own letters to their younger…

The young adult novel is under attack in R. Zamora Linmark’s 1995 novel Rolling the R’s. Miles away from singular narrators, linear tales, and middle-class white characters, an ocean away…

Junot Diaz: When I rethink my origins as an artist, as a writer, for me what was very, very valuable was how incessant and how numerous were the formulas that…

Percussion punctuates the chanting voices of boys and men as images of Tiger Woods, first as a toddler, then a young man, are choreographed into a montage that builds to…

A visit to the recently concluded Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, with its mock portraits, master-painting recreations, and archetypal movie stills, all starring Sherman, evoked the…

Writer’s Note: This is an entry for all of the questions. A sort of meta-answer. You’ll get the idea. Supplementary instructions for free response questions, National Higher Education Entrance Examination…

Two fish are swimming in a river. The older one asks, “How’s the water?” The younger one says, “I don’t know if it’s clean or cloudy.” “I don’t know if…