Min Hyoung Song is the author of the award-winning The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, as well as co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. He is a professor of English at Boston College.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Beauty of Men: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," the debut novel from poet Ocean Vuong, demands a different way of looking and valuing what is seen....
Korean Pastoral: On Yeon-sik Hong’s “Uncomfortably Happily”
Yeon-sik Hong’s delightful and challenging graphic memoir "Uncomfortably Happily" at once seems to adhere to the Western pastoral tradition and to upend it...
Reimagining the Working Class: A Roundtable on Economic and Racial Justice in the Age of Trump
A round table discussion on state of justice after the election....
Strange Weather: Fiction and Climate Change
Min Hyoung Song reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.”...
Monsters Come Home: On Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s “Monstress”
Min Hyoung Song on what Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's "Monstress" can teach us now....
Serious Literature: On Hua Hsu’s “A Floating Chinaman”
Min Hyoung Song explores the legacies of Pearl S. Buck and H. T. Tsiang in Hua Hsu's "A Floating Chinaman."...
Absent Figures in the Frame
No reader should expect a happy ending in Tomine’s fiction....
Between Genres: On Chang-rae Lee’s Realism
A reader's evolving relationship with Chang-rae Lee's novels....
