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What My Korean Father Taught Me About Defending Myself in America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 20, 2021October 19, 2022

“And he said something I would never forget. ‘The best fighter in tae kwon do never fights,’ he said. ‘He always finds another way.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

As Impossible and Imperfect as Translation

by Krista Stevens October 30, 2019October 19, 2022

“But poetry…has helped me to find new meaning within and across linguistic boundaries.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

by Sari Botton April 24, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

by Matthew Salesses April 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

by Matthew Salesses April 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Posted inBooks, Featured, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story

‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine…’

by Nicole Chung October 2, 2018October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.

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The Changeling

by Sari Botton April 18, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which How to Write an Autobiographical Novel author Alexander Chee considers how answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.

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