Newsweek: The Model Minority Myth Is Killing Asian American Youth

Newsweek: The Model Minority Myth Is Killing Asian American Youth

By Dale Dagar Maglalang, Assistant Professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University It’s college application season. For many high school seniors across the country, this is a time of high stress as they meticulously make a case for why they...
Documented: The Last Wedding Shop in Chinatown

Documented: The Last Wedding Shop in Chinatown

Photo credit: KPG-Payless/Shutterstock By Jessica Shuran Yu Jessica Liang moves with great speed. With swift, practiced motions, Liang, 41, blends creamy foundation onto a bridesmaid’s cheek. Once the teenage girl’s makeup is perfected, Liang instructs her to change...
National Endowment for the Arts: Revisiting Charles Yu

National Endowment for the Arts: Revisiting Charles Yu

Photo credit: JuShoot/Shutterstock Today we revisit our 2020 interview with Charles Yu, whose novel Interior Chinatown received the National Book Award for fiction and has been recently adapted into a Hulu series by Yu who is also the showrunner. A novel told in the...