- Percival Everett and the Ambiguities of Experience, Alta. April 25, 2023.
- Law and Order: review of Joanna Schwartz’s Shielded, Alta. April 3, 2023.
- Literary Adventures Old and New: Musso & Frank Grill, Alta. March 21, 2023
- Kelly Link’s White Cat, Black Dog, Washington Post. March 19, 2023.
- Appreciation of Isaac Butler’s The Method, National Book Critics Circle
- Literary Adventures Old and New: Printer’s Inc., Alta. February 27, 2023.
- Literary Adventures in California: Boxwalla. Alta.
- Kim Stanley Robinson: The Influential and the Influenced. Alta. November 8, 2022.
- Nothing Doings, Alta. November 7, 2022.
- The Gold Coast Pictures Orange County in 2027, Alta. October 25, 2022.
- Circular Logic, Alta. October 10, 2022.
- The Mariana Trench in The Swimmers, Alta. August 30, 2022.
- Big Tech is Hurting Big Ideas in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles Times. August 12, 2022.
- Beyond Satire, Alta. June 28, 2022
- Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona (review) Washington Post. June 26, 2022.
- Life Stories, Alta. June 6, 2022
- History of Violence, Alta. April 11, 2022
- Toil and Trouble, Alta. February 7, 2022
- Appreciation of Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America, National Book Critics Circle, February 7, 2022
- Defamiliarizing the Minotaur in Postcolonial Love Poem, Alta. February 1, 2022.
- Postcolonial Love Poem is a Lantern in the Dark, Alta. January 25, 2022.
- Imagined Lives of Others in Likes, Alta. January 11, 2022.
- Between Reality and Fantasy in Likes, Alta. December 21, 2021.
- Body and Soul, Alta. November 15, 2021
- Tommy Orange’s Oakland, Alta. October 26, 2021.
- Out of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Overcoat, Alta. October 12, 2021.
- What Carnival, Catastrophes, and Revolution Have in Common, Alta. September 14, 2021.
- Jai Chakrabarti’s A Play for the End of the World, The Washington Post, September 4, 2021
- Brave New World (on Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives), Alta. July 26, 2021.
- Let’s Talk About Sex, Alta. July 8, 2021.
- The Wonder Test is a Beguiling Mix of the Speculative and the Familiar, San Francisco Chronicle. July 6, 2021.
- Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is a Memoir that Refuses Genre, The Washington Post, July 6, 2021.
- Secondhand Desire: On Sanjana Sathian’s Gold Diggers, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 28, 2021
- New and Forthcoming Books by Writers from the Diaspora, Electric Lit, May 14, 2021
- Brenda Peynado’s The Rock Eaters is Dazzling, Weird, and Real, San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 2021
- “I’m a work in progress”: interview with Anjali Enjeti, Catapult, April 27, 2021
- Containing Multitudes: Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd, Alta, April 19, 2021
- How Do We Write a Better Story of Asian America, The Juggernaut, March 11, 2021
- Joshua Mohr’s Spiral Fuels Powerful Memoir, San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 2021
- Bomb Under the Table: On Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 5, 2021
- Sonia Faleiro’s The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, On the Seawall, February 16, 2021
- In The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr.tells a story that feels descendant of Toni Morrison, San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2021
- Jess Walter Returns with His Seventh and Best Novel The Cold Millions, San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2020
- The Border Between Magic and Annihilation: On Laura van den Berg’s I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 6, 2020
- Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom‘prods faith, science, addiction, San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2020
- Winter Counts tells a Hard-boiled Crime Story on the Reservation, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2020
- In The Color of Air Community Bonds are Forged, San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2020
- Strange Cosmic Entertainment: On Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 7, 2020
- In A Burning A Terrorist Attack Exposes a Broken Political Situation in India, San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 2020
- A Song From Faraway tests myths surrounding colonist men, San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2020
- The Story is Her Ancestors in That Hair, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 23, 2020
- Self-Discovery flourishes through second chances in It’s Not All Downhill From Here, San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 2020
- Henna Artist Paints a Dramatic India, If Not Entirely Historical San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2020
- Hilarious Interior Chinatown skewers Asian American stereotypes, San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2020
- Review: Old wounds span generations in E.J. Koh’s Magical Language of Others, San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2019
- A Year in Reading, The Millions, December 16, 2019
- 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
- Susan Straight’s Country of Women describes ‘true America’, San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2019
- Sing a Rhythm is a visionary manifesto for the education of Black and brown girls, 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
- 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, San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2019
- Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread, LARB, March 5, 2019
- 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
- Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan, San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 2018
- Anxiety-based Insomnia Nearly Tore My Life Apart, Slate, September 24, 2018
- Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh, San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2018
- Sea Prayer, by Khaled Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2018
- Satire and Subversion in Ishmael Reed’s Conjugating Hindi, LARB, September 8, 2018
- 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
- Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart, San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2018
- Missed Connections: Review of Hanne Ørstavik’s Love, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 10, 2018
- Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2018
- Mary Beard’s Women & Power: A Manifesto, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2017
- Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, Los Angeles Review of Books, December 12, 2017
- Isabel Allende’s In the Midst of Winter, San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2017
- Ayobami Adeboyo’s Stay With Me, San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2017
- Nancy McLean’s Democracy in Chains, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 8, 2017
- 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, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 21, 2017 (mentioned by The Atlantic )
- Laleh Khadivi’s A Good Country, San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 2017
- Immigrant voices: Fiction by Unnikrishnan, Tharoor, Alomar, San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2017
- Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2017
- Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2017
- Roxane Gay’s Difficult Women, San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2017
- Tana French’s The Trespasser, San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 2016
- The Cauliflower: Deconstruction of a Hindu Mystic’s Spiritual Legacy, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 19, 2016
- Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 2016
- Shobha Rao’s An Unrestored Woman, San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2016
- A Sense of a Real Home, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 24, 2016
- Nayomi Munaweera’s second novel What Lies Between Us, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 19, 2016
- Idra Novey’s fantastic Ways to Disappear, San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 2016
- Eli Horowitz’s The Pickle Index, San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2015
- Joshua Mohr’s All This Life, San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2015
- Vendela Vida’s The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2015
- The Memories of Elephants, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 23, 2015
- Interview with Xiaolu Guo, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 29, 2014
- Does Fan Service Ruin Television? PopMatters, June 16, 2014
- Of Course She’s Pretty, Salon, May 22, 2014
- Boy, Snow, Bird, The Rumpus, March 3, 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
- 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
- Stepping Out From Behind The Email, The New York Times, January 31, 2013
- The Magic Bullet, The Rumpus, November 2, 2012
- Jeet Thayil on Courting Controversy, Challenging Convention in Narcopolis, Publishing Perspectives, June 21, 2012
- Interview with Santhosh Daniel About The Light Thief, PAIFF, September 15th, 2011