is a Korean American writer and archaeologist currently finishing up her master’s in museum anthropology at Columbia University. Her interests in writing and museum work are grounded in the same…

…the state of affairs in the city, and the world at large. —Tammy Lai-Ming Ho   Do you remember what inspired you to write your first poems? I started reading…

…poets in this portfolio are epic in sweep yet lyrically intense in contingencies of feeling and knowing. Their work recalls Myung Mi Kim’s definition of poetics as “that activity tending…

…Jung, Jay Caspian Kang, Julia Kardon, Sheba Karim, Madhu Kaza, E. Tammy Kim, Esther Kim, Andy Liu, Mimi Mondal, Jyothi Natarajan, Abdi Nazemian, Nadxieli Nieto, Lily Philpott, Tejal Rao, Elda…

…space for radical conversations about Asian America, featuring the hosts of Time to Say Goodbye podcast Jay Caspian Kang (writer at large for New York Times Magazine), E. Tammy Kim…

…This excerpt is reprinted from Litany for the Long Moment by Mary-Kim Arnold. Copyright © 2018 by Mary-Kim Arnold. Used with permission of the publisher, Essay Press. All rights reserved….

…Earth by humanity. (Milkweed, March 12)       Blood Sisters by Kim Yideum trans. Jiyoon Lee Blood Sisters is set in the 1980s, a period of political turmoil and…

…Been looks at feral poetry and monstrous reinventions in a new light. (Alice James Books, April 16)         Diary of a Murderer by Young-Ha Kim, trans. Krys…

…kids home, who cleaned the board for her when her class was done for the day. Excerpts from 항구의 사랑(LOVE AT THE HARBOR) by 김세희(Kim Sehee), copyright © Kim Sehee…

…Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021), examines with great care and research two ripped-from-the-headlines cases of individuals posing as students at universities they did not actually get into: Azia Kim…

…recent book, Lolas’ House: Filipina Women Living with War, and Kim Soom’s novel One Left and Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poetry collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species. Evelina was my…

…Coffee Shop in a piece by E. Tammy Kim on Open City! 10. Roxane Gay on Publishing and the Flattening of Difference For Roxane Gay, writing is a “form of…

It’s early morning in Chinatown, and men are lined up for milky coffee and sponge cake at Sun Light Bakery. A more leisurely set sits at the counter of Hop…

Hettienne Park is walking down West 52nd in a black trench coat and boots, pacing a confident, long stride and smoking a cigarette. She has just enough time for early…

1. Got drunk on sweet booze at Congee Village, 100 Allen Street. 2. Saw my ex sitting with a new lady on Delancey Street. 3. Attended the annual benefit for…

Part 1 of an Open City series profiling undocumented New Yorkers. Today, June 25: an anxious morning for Supreme Court watchers and anyone interested in immigration. The decision was announced,…

Several weeks ago, I followed my friend and colleague, Shafaq Islam, a housing attorney, to a tenant meeting in Chinatown. Around 20 residents of 11 Allen Street—mostly Chinese and Malaysian…

Part 4 of an Open City series profiling undocumented New Yorkers. (Click to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.) In a few weeks, Jeff Louie will stake his…

Video by Jessica Wang The radio is set to Q104.3, “New York’s Classic Rock.” The DJ asks listeners which movie the guy from the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” music…

Walking east on Division Street, I found myself keeping pace with a short, shifty guy in work boots and dusty jeans. He was yelling into a dated, flip-style cell phone…