Arts & Entertainment
We cover films and TV shows, theater projects, artists, museum exhibits and publish extensive book reviews in our New Year’s Edition and Summer Book Review.
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A youth’s entry to exploring and learning Asian American histories
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AN ASIAN AMERICAN A TO Z: A CHILDREN’S GUIDE TO OUR HISTORY By Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu; Illustrated by Kavita Ramchandran (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023, 40 pp., […] READ MORE
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What unites us
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I’M AN AMERICAN By Darshana Khiani, illustrated by Laura Freeman (New York: Viking Press, 2023, 48 pp., $19.95, hardcover) This is a wonderful book about what it truly means to […] READ MORE
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Nikkei prison poetry joins literary canon
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THEY NEVER ASKED: – SENRYU POETRY FROM THE WWII PORTLAND ASSEMBLY CENTER Translated by Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freling and Satsuki Takikawa (Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 2023, 200 pp., […] READ MORE
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A study of J/A and Ainu women
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SHADOW TRACES: SEEING JAPANESE/AMERICAN AND AINU WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVESBy Elena Tajima Creef (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2022, 188 pp., $26, paperback) Looking at the photos presented in […] READ MORE
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JA gender, transnationalism and racial politics in the interwar period
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NEW WOMEN OF EMPIRE: GENDERED POLITICS AND RACIAL UPLIFT IN INTERWAR JAPANESE AMERICA By Chrissy Yee Lau (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022, 206 pp., $30, paperback) In “New Women […] READ MORE
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‘The Golden Screen’ shines the spotlight on Asians in Hollywood
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LOS ANGELES — The Japanese American National Museum held a launch on Nov. 2 for New York Times bestseller Jeff Yang’s “The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America.” […] READ MORE
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PAUL YAMAZAKI: An appreciation of someone who helped give voice to people who look like me
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Whenever this reporter visited City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, it often seemed that in the house of Kerouac and Ginsberg, books tended to find me instead of […] READ MORE
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Rich Heart Mountain personal narratives abound in ‘Unforgotten Voices’
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UNFORGOTTEN VOICES FROM HEART MOUNTAIN By Joanne Oppenheim & Nancy Matsumoto (New York: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Inc., 2023, 221 pp. $24.95, paperback) Although primarily a prolific author of children’s books, […] READ MORE
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Series offers a new type of samurai story on multiple levels
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We’ve all seen samurai movies and TV shows before. Some are classics of the genre, like Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant films including “Seven Samurai” and “Rashomon.” Now you can add a […] READ MORE
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A new memoir serves up life lessons from a childhood in a Chinese restaurant
Terry Tang, Associated Press
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Many parents tell their children never talk to strangers. But Curtis Chin’s parents urged their six kids to ask customers at their Chinese restaurant about their background. It was their […] READ MORE
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