In the whirlwind of international news flooding our media, the recent Supreme Court decision on Louisiana v. Callais has flown under the radar. Yet, with the crucial midterm elections around the corner, this decision threatens to have significant ramifications on predicted blue waves, and America’s future political geography.The…
A mix of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” cultural voyeurism, seduction narrative (with modern twists) and epistolary novel absorbing mediums across time and types, Ruth Ozeki’s “My Year of Meats” is indeed thought-provoking in both form and content. My Year of Meats follows the journey of Jane Takagi-Little, a…
Becoming the most-watched original title in Netflix history, as well as taking the internet by storm with its extremely catchy tunes, “K-Pop Demon Hunters” (KDH) jumpstarted this summer for so many around the world. With its use of Korean voice actors and faithful reproduction of trendy K-pop music,…
Oct. 24, 2025, marks the 154th anniversary of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese massacre, a tragedy long forgotten by most. A lynching mob of 500 white and Hispanic men attacked Chinatown after the death of a white sheriff, brutally murdering 18 Chinese men. This was nearly 10% of…
Apart from the inherent danger, violence and injustice of prison life, one theme emerged repeatedly in the anthology — one that surprised me in its universality: love.