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Return Engagements (A Framing), by Việt Lê
What engages us to return, time and again, to places painful and pleasurable? Wars, wounds and wonder. Forty years onwards, why and how does this still matter? What is the true heart of the matter?...
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(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War (Student Page)
(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War Volume 6, Issue 2: Fall 2015 Guest Editors: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials & Sylvia Shin Huey Chong Buy “(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War” Student Price $22.00 USD Buy...
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Mixed Race Issue (Student Page)
AALR’s special issue on mixed race, is not simply a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur–inspiring new conversations and...
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Isabel Theselius
Isabel Theselius, a Swedish artist who works with media images and sculptural ephemera, created a series of paintings based on Wong Kar-Wai films that look as if Edward Hopper had lived and worked in...
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Spring 2015: Trading Futures
Table of Contents for Trading Futures Volume 6, Issue 1: Spring 2015 Buy “Trading Futures” AALR vol. 6 issue 1, US $18.00 USDAALR vol. 6 issue 1, Canada $23.00 USDAALR vol. 6 issue 1, Int’l $38.00...
View ArticleLetter to Carlos Bulosan, September 2015
Dear Carlos— To get from Tacoma, where I live, to your gravesite in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, entails a drive of thirty-eight miles. Halfway between...
View ArticleYiyun Li Interviewed by Terry Hong
To become a writer, Yiyun Li left behind everything familiar: her birth country (China), her first language (Mandarin), her family (parents and sister), her scientific training (immunology), and her...
View ArticleThe Order of Things by C. Dale Young
There were many things Alejandro Castillo did not know. For a start, he did not know his given name or the people who were his parents. In this, he was one who embraced mystery not because he had that...
View ArticleFiction Review by Jessica Man
The Three Body Problem. Liu Cixin. translated by Ken Liu. New York: Tor Books. 400 pp. The Dark Forest. Liu Cixin. translated by Joel Martinsen. New York: Tor Books. 512 pp. The first installment of...
View ArticleHow to Bury Your Dead by Amin Ahmad
Your grandmother dies one muggy May afternoon in Connecticut, six thousand miles away from her beloved apartment in Calcutta, India. She dies alone in a hospital room. Your moon-faced grandmother is...
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Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11 (Student Page)
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11 Guest Editors: Rajini Srikanth & Parag Khandhar 9/11 Anniversary E-Issue 9/11 Anniversary E-Issue $10.00 USD On the ten-year anniversary of September...
View ArticleAsian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mental Health Testimonial...
Seeking short narratives/testimonies (50-100 words) and visual art related to Asian American mental wellness and mental illness for a 2017 special issue of The Asian American Literary Review (AALR),...
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Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health
A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health For some time we’ve agreed there’s a crisis of Asian American mental health–see the alarming and oft-cited CDC reports on Asian American suicide and...
View ArticleF Sector Plates by Swati Rana
The ocean curved itself around. Beta could see the story of the storm, starting far out to sea on one side and making its way inland. He wrapped his shawl tight. Long tendrils of rain were falling down...
View Article“Philomena, Kuya Bongbong of Magsaysay Street” by L.M.S.P. Burns
Katrina, Edgar, and Vicente had the “Purple Man and his disciples” at the Kam Shopping Center. We—Gerlie, Totoy, and Baby—had Philomena on Magsaysay Street. Philomena talked to herself, swatted insects...
View Article“Taking Them to Our Lady of Kalihi” by Brian Ascalon Roley
Over the years, I have taught (and continue to teach) Rolling the R’s in creative writing classes for the same reason I assign As I Lay Dying. As with all of my favorite books, when I share it what I...
View Article“Teaching ‘Rolling the R’s’ at SFSU” by Wei Ming Dariotis
I started teaching Rolling the R’s when I first taught the Pilipino Literature class (AAS 363) at San Francisco State University in 1999, and continued to teach it over the next decade in AAS 206:...
View Article“Kalihi in Farrah/Farrah in Kalihi: Marginalization and Appropriation in...
you remember your voice / because you are American because you are a dark Pilipino-American / and that they will balisong your tongue because they can tell you speak / unlearned English. —Michael Melo...
View Article“A++++: Zack Linmark’s ‘F For Book Report’” by Micah Perks
For the 100th year anniversary of Rolling The R’s I wanted to talk about my “bestest bestest” part, “F For Book Report,” the part I’ve taught over a dozen times in classes at UCSC. “F For Book Report”...
View Article“For Zack (that is for AALR to celebrate ‘Rolling the R’s’)” by Karen Tei...
It’s been awhile. Well, if we’re celebrating how many years of Rolling, is it one hundred already? Okay, it’s not that long ago, but this is not about Rolling. It’s about Zack, Zack as a newbie teacher...
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