A Filipino and a Chinese girl, both comfort women, find friendship in a piece of critical fabulation

Dissecting the violence of state, warfare, and language

‘in the haiku I send her / and the silence she sends back, / hell no, nan da yo, / call it off, snap it shut, trash / it, just let it be, let me be’

The novelist talks about his favorite samurai movies, the violence of imperialism, and his struggle to remember Japan

On the centenntial of its founding, a short history of the Ghadr Party, and the ghosts that live on