The acclaimed novelist mines her own family history for an intimate story of mothers, daughters, and the wounds that echo across generations. Gish Jen’s latest novel, Bad Bad Girl, began as […]
In his second novel, Mỹ Documents, Kevin Nguyen follows four Vietnamese cousins whose lives are upended after a terrorist attack incites a government crackdown that targets their community through mass internment of Vietnamese-American citizens. Nguyen relies on the history of Japanese internment, the Vietnam War, and more recent immigrant detention to imagine a not-entirely-implausible near […]
NYPL Long-Term Fellow Alvin Eng presents a work-in-progress look at his forthcoming work of history and memoir, Urban Oracle Bones, which explores the cultural dynamic between opium and the “heroin chic” punk scene of 1970s NYC. Drawing on resources from the Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, as […]