NonFiction

Review: Hilarious ‘Interior Chinatown’ skewers Asian American stereotypes, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2020
Review: Old wounds span generations in E.J. Koh’s ‘Magical Language of Others’, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2019
A Year in Reading, The Millions, December 16, 2019
Review: on Pigs, a novel by Johanna Stoberock, On the Seawall, October 22, 2019
How I’ve Changed as a Parent in the Wake of My Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis, Catapult, September 23, 2019
Research Notes: Chimerica, Necessary Fiction, September 6, 2019
Review: Susan Straight’s ‘Country of Women’ describes ‘true America’, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2019
Review: ‘Sing a Rhythm’ is a visionary manifesto for the education of black and brown girls, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2019
12 Books That Prove the Literary/Genre Distinction is Bogus, Electric Lit, August 16, 2019
How Rachel Khong Built The Ruby, a Coworking Community for San Francisco Creatives, Catapult, May 16, 2019
Review: on Tears of the Truffle Pig, a novel by Fernando Flores, On the Seawall, May 14, 2019
13 Asian American & Pacific Islander Authors On The First Time They Saw Themselves In A Book, Bustle, May 1, 2019
Review: ‘Naamah’ reimagines Noah, his ark and his unconventional wife, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2019
Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s “Gingerbread”, LARB, March 5, 2019
Review: On Binstead’s Safari, a novel by Rachel Ingalls, On the Seawall, February 19, 2019
Dark days: A review of ‘The Collected Schizophrenias,’ by Esmé Weijun Wang, San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 2019
‘The Atlas Of Reds And Blues’ Was Inspired By Author Devi Laskar’s Frightening Experience With Law Enforcement, Bustle, February 6, 2019
Weighed down by our past: ‘Heavy: An American Memoir,’ by Kiese Laymon, San Francisco Chronicle, December 17, 2018
Anita Felicelli and Huda Al-Marashi Discuss Diaspora, Breaking the Rules, and Reality vs. Likability, The Millions, November 27, 2018
Research Notes, Love Songs for a Lost Continent, Necessary Fiction, October 19, 2018
Review of ‘Washington Black,’ by Esi Edugyan, San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 2018
Anxiety-based Insomnia Nearly Tore My Life Apart, Slate, September 24, 2018
Review of ‘Heartland,’ by Sarah Smarsh, San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2018
Review of ‘Sea Prayer,’ by Khaled Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2018
Satire and Subversion in Ishmael Reed’s “Conjugating Hindi”, LARB, September 8, 2018
Review of ‘The Incendiaries,’ by R.O. Kwon, San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2018
Falling in Love with Eve Harrington, The Rumpus, July 12, 2018
‘Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep’ Is A Kids’ Guidebook To Resistance, Romper, July 9, 2018
8 Books About the Eerie, Awesome Connection Between Identical Twins, Electric Lit, June 29, 2018
When The Connection With Your Baby Is Slow In Coming: A Lesson In Twin Love, Romper, June 28, 2018
Review of Elaine Castillo’s “America Is Not the Heart”, San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2018
Missed Connections: Review of Hanne Ørstavik’s “Love”, LARB, April 10, 2018
Review of Shoba Rao’s “Girls Burn Brighter”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2018
Review of Mary Beard’s “Women & Power: A Manifesto”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2017
Review of Louise Erdrich’s “Future Home of the Living God”, LARB, December 12, 2017
Review of Isabel Allende’s “In the Midst of Winter”, San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2017
Review of Ayobami Adeboyo’s “Stay With Me”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2017
Review of Nancy McLean’s “Democracy in Chains”, LARB, September 8, 2017
Review of Durga Chew-Bose’s “Too Much and Not the Mood”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 2017
Interview with Arundhati Roy, San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2017
Outside Language and Power: The Mastery of Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, LARB, June 21, 2017 ( mentioned by The Atlantic )
Review of Laleh Khadivi’s “A Good Country”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 2017
Review: Immigrant voices: Fiction by Unnikrishnan, Tharoor, Alomar, San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2017
Review of Min Jin Lee’s “Pachinko”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2017
Review of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See, San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2017
Review of Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2017
Review of Tana French’s “The Trespasser”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 2016
The Cauliflower: Deconstruction of a Hindu Mystic’s Spiritual Legacy – Review of The Cauliflower, LARB, August 19, 2016
Review of Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 2016
Review of Shoba Rao’s “An Unrestored Woman”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2016
A Sense of a Real Home – Review of The Year of the Runaways and The Association of Small Bombs, LARB, March 24, 2016
Review of Nayomi Munaweera’s second novel “What Lies Between Us”, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 19, 2016
Review of Idra Novey’s fantastic “Ways to Disappear”, San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 2016
Review of Eli Horowitz’s The Pickle Index, San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2015
Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, The Rumpus, October 5, 2015
Review of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth, The Rumpus, September 29, 2015
The Stories We Tell, India Currents, August 1, 2015
Review of Joshua Mohr’s All This Life, San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2015
Picking Waste, India Currents, June 11, 2015
Review of Vendela Vida’s The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2015
Review of Gallagher Lawson’s The Paper Man, The Rumpus, May 28, 2015
The Memories of Elephants – Review of The Tusk That Did the Damage, LARB, May 23, 2015
Review of The Lost Boys Symphony, PopMatters, May 1, 2015
Review of Laura van den Berg’s Find Me, The Rumpus, Feb. 9, 2015
The Waved Albatross, The Rumpus, January 28, 2015
Interview with Xiaolu Guo, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 29, 2014
Review of Tana French’s “The Secret Place”, PopMatters, September 9, 2014
Review of Tiphanie Yanique’s “Land of Love and Drowning”, PopMatters, July 14, 2014
Review of “Panic in a Suitcase”, PopMatters, July 10, 2014
Review of Wu Ming-Yi’s “The Man with the Compound Eyes”, The Rumpus, June 26, 2014
Does Fan Service Ruin Television? PopMatters, June 16, 2014
Of Course She’s Pretty, Salon, May 22, 2014
Of Art and Magic: Interview with Porochista Khakpour, PopMatters, May 22, 2014
How Critics Misunderstood and Misused a Powerful Idea, PopMatters, March 20, 2014
Boy, Snow, Bird, The Rumpus, March 3, 2014
Rippling With Metaphors: Nina McConigley’s Cowboys and East Indians, India Currents, March 3, 2014
Romance and Illusion: Timothy Schaffert’s THE SWAN GONDOLA, PopMatters, March 3, 2014
The Two Worlds of Susan Minot’s THIRTY GIRLS, PopMatters, February 10, 2014
Mad, Mad World, India Currents, February 1, 2014
Traversing Anupam Chander’s The Electronic Silk Road” Verdict, October 9, 2013
The ‘Moment’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 9, 2013
100 Years After the Nobel Prize , India Currents, July 1, 2013
Is She Yours? Brain, Child, June 15, 2013
The Sacred and the Profane, The Rumpus, April 25, 2013
You’re Getting Very Sleepy, Babble, March 6, 2013
Flames of Outrage, India Currents, February 1, 2013
Stepping Out From Behind The Email, The New York Times, January 31, 2013
Lime Pickle, Punchnel’s, January 17, 2013
The Magic Bullet, The Rumpus, November 2, 2012
The Mindy Project (retitled “Parody or Comedy?”), India Currents, October 8, 2012
The Color of Justice, India Currents, July 3, 2012
Jeet Thayil on Courting Controversy, Challenging Convention in Narcopolis, Publishing Perspectives, June 21, 2012
The Raj Prototype: Have media stereotypes about Indian-Americans evolved? India Currents, April 8, 2012
Interview with Santhosh Daniel About The Light Thief, PAIFF, September 15th, 2011
Embodying Experience: A Conversation with Artist Gail Wight, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, May 24th, 2011