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WORK
Below are links to selected work covering books,
American history, culture, identity, and politics.
For my complete book review portfolio, visit my BookMarks page.
Please click on each image to open the link in a separate window.
Along the highways, Indian restaurants serve America’s truckers (Washington Post, 5/20/23)
Why Jan. 6 insurrectionists sent a letter to the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington Post, 1/22/24)
This scholar is pulling back the curtain on race in Shakespeare (Washington Post, 8/23/23)
National parks made my immigrant family American (Washington Post, 3/6/23)
Curtis Chin’s memoir puts everything on the table (Washington Post, 11/3/23)
A Berlin subway stop is called ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ Some Black Germans want change. (Washington Post, 11/27/22)
In Jeff Yang’s illustrated history ‘The Golden Screen,’ breadth is freedom (Boston Globe, 10/31/23)
Vauhini Vara’s ‘This Is Salvaged’ deals in flesh and blood (Boston Globe, 9/20/23)
‘Tomb of Sand’ meditates on the cultural diffusion that permeates India (Washington Post, 2/3/23)
Two states still observe King-Lee Day, honoring Robert E. Lee with MLK (Washington Post, 1/16/23)
Defining 'Asian American' is complicated. Who gets left behind? (Washington Post, 12/19/22)
For Bad Bunny’s fans, he’s more than a global superstar. He’s a political icon. (Washington Post, 10/19/22)
Spread of Catholic hospitals limits reproductive care across the U.S. (Washington Post, 10/10/22)
Post-Roe, more Americans want their tubes tied. It isn’t easy. (Washington Post, 8/15/22)
Their medications cause pregnancy issues. Post-Roe, that could be dangerous. (Washington Post, 7/26/22)
The push to observe Diwali in the U.S. — and why some remain skeptical (Washington Post, 11/16/22)
Young Iranian Americans are organizing in wake of Iran protests (Washington Post, 10/13/22)
In former British colonies, ghosts of past haunt mourning for queen (Washington Post, 9/12/22)
In ‘People Person,’ estranged siblings bond over their absent father (Washington Post, 9/8/22)
She survived a forced sterilization. Activists fear more could occur post-Roe. (Washington Post, 7/25/22)
An All-American Story: An Interview With Sopan Deb on “Keya Das’s Second Act” (Chicago Review of Books, 7/6/22)
Men rush to get vasectomies after Roe ruling
(Washington Post, 6/29/22)
Stealing back what’s been stolen in ‘Portrait of a Thief’ (Boston Globe, 5/5/22)
Sindya Bhanoo's short stories carry readers across American landscape (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/22/22)
Review: A novel set in L.A. and Mumbai aims to reinvent the South Asian immigrant novel (Los Angeles Times, 2/25/22)
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