We are so pleased to share our newest issue of Canadian Literature, issue 261, Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung.

A little compendium of a few things I've translated. A varied group, but worth your attention, I think!

Check out our 3 CFP's for @the-ala.bsky.social 2026 conference! We have panels on model minority discourse, materiality, and new directions in Asian American literary studies! Due 1/22/26: caals.org/archives/1622

The Best Asian American books of 2025 list is out from Soapberry Review! I wrote about @estherwslin.bsky.social ‘s Cold Thief Place. bit.ly/3Lay11f

Binge listeners, your time has come! All six episodes of Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order are now available to listen to for free wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

I've written a review of Rachel Maddow's new podcast #BurnOrder, about Japanese American incarceration in WWII. This is its opening. I'm pitching it to editors right now. Know someone you think would be interested? Please let me know! #MSNow #Maddow #RachelMaddow #ExecutiveOrder9066 #internment

Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

📣 Poetry lovers! ⁠Join us Tues, Dec 9 at 6:30pm PST / 9:30pm EST for Nikkei Uncovered V, a virtual poetry reading hosted by traci kato-kiriyama featuring @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, Erica Isomura, and Syd Westley! ⁠ ⁠ ✨ FREE! RSVP required to receive the Zoom link www.janm.org/events/...

Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.

My new essay, "Transpacific Exceptionalism: The Making of Japan-US Militarist Interimperiality" is out now. Open access at the Journal of Transnational American Studies. あたらしい論文が出ました！オープンアクセスです。

Rachel Maddow has a new six-part podcast on the time “the US military deployed on the streets of America" to forcibly remove a targeted minority. I'm told I'm featured in Part 2. The first two eps drop on December 1 from MSNOW.

new @carceralhistory.bsky.social: an author's pitch from David Coogan, editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration, recently published by @universitypress.cambridge.org carceral-history.ghost.io/prisoners-wh...

I was so moved by the tenacity and love documented in this film about the long campaign to Free Leonard Peltier. The film is streaming until November 30. $15. www.docnyc.net/film/free-le...

Suddenly So Alone: Jean Chen Ho on Dislocation and Longing in Upstate New York: On Lunar New Year’s Day in 2024, I drove for two hours from Saratoga Springs, New York, to Dia Beacon, the contemporary art museum on the banks of the Hudson River. I wanted beauty. Tall trees stood… #Features #Memoir

I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好

PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com). Register here: t.ly/HT233

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.

Exciting CAALS event! 🎉 Join us Fri, Nov 14, 2:30-3:45pm EST for a talk with Chris A. Eng & Roberta Wolfson on their new books, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America & Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State! Zoom link: bit.ly/4nFc73u

My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️ If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026! dukeupress.edu/torn

The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.

Capitalism in Salem is a horror show—Halloween reading.

At the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, this Sunday Nov 2 at 2PM.

Excited to moderate this screening of two important docs, Cathy Linh Che's WE WERE THE SCENERY, about her parents' experiences being Vietnamese extras in Apocalypse Now--that movie should never be taught w/o Cathy's film--and THIRD ACT, about key director Robert Nakamura. tinyurl.com/4nekzws8

TWO AWARD-WINNING POETS BRING NEW COLLECTIONS EXPLORING DESIRE AND HERITAGE TO PASADENA: Garrett Hongo and Robin Coste Lewis read from new Knopf collections at historic Vroman’s Bookstore www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/two...

A Q&A with Happyend (2024) director Neo Sora. https://bit.ly/4nUSlkP

Sixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!

“‘The works in _Tessaku_ challenge the longstanding and damaging myth that the death of Japanese-language Japanese American literature was inevitable—that assimilation and monolingualism were the only possible fates for later generations of Japanese Americans’”

Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

the discussion over whether the Komeito will stay as part of the coalition with the LDP under Takaichi is really interesting in highlighting how the parties are a mishmash of various policies and need serious sorting out if Japan ever hopes to become a two-party system.

In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family’s history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’ Melody S. Gee reviews: www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set

From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”

聴いた。よい演説だと思いました。 ＜第80回 国連総会 #UNGA80 に出席中の石破茂総理大臣による一般討論演説が公開されました👇 gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan ＊オリジナル音声（日本語）は画面右下の設定⚙️から"Interlingua"を選択してください。＞ Japan His Excellency Shigeru Ishiba Prime Minister 23 September 2025 gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan

I am thrilled to be a part of this conversation at UC Berkeley, and discuss Japanese wartime incarceration literature at Tule Lake. To join us on zoom, please register via webpage. September 26, 2025, 4PM PT events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/30...

Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE. I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5

"What really kept me strong was my anger." In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.

New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.

Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Japanese American groups blast the use of Fort Bliss, a former WWII Japanese internment camp site, as an ICE detention center. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Sign to protect our national parks & an honest reckoning with our history. #skystorians rafu.com/2025/08/prot...

A preview of Speculative Relations is now up on Hyperallergic. hyperallergic.com/1034730/this...

Entirely moved by this flyer, designed by my colleague @glavey.bsky.social (for a film screening hosted by our theory reading group).

Nagasaki, 9. August 1945

I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

THE CLEAVING is a landmark anthology, bringing together over thirty Vietnamese diasporic writers in conversation. A powerful collective statement on how far Vietnamese diasporic literature has grown in the last fifty years. Come see us Friday night in Menlo Park! www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve...

Watch/Listen to the launch @haymarketbooks.org—music by Patrick Shiroishi, greeting by Mitsuye Yamada, poems by Anne Watanabe, Michael Prior, Carolyn Nakagawa, Cath Goulding, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Emily Mitamura, Mike Ishii, Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno, statement by Tsuru for Solidarity: t.ly/X6ItQ

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...