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Relatable Anxieties: A Review of Ranjan Adiga’s Diversity Quota
Review by Anna Stirr This collection of short stories, Diversity Quota, marks Ranjan Adiga as a fresh voice in global literature in English today. More than simply chronicles of Nepali experiences or of US immigrant experiences with Nepali flavor, these stories demonstrate his skill as a keen observer of humanity. Set in the US and…
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A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…
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Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel
Review by Gabriella Contratto One of the first lessons a creative writer learns is the shape of a good plot, the flat line of exposition, the rising action that culminates in the pointy climax where the plot turns, and the downhill line of the falling action ending in a neat resolution. In Fiction Writing 101,…
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Winners of the 2025 Mānoa Journal Writing Contest in Fiction and Poetry
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Mānoa Journal Writing Contest in Fiction and Poetry. This year, the finalists were judged by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Mai Der Vang. We would like to extend our deepest thanks to the judges for their care and insight, and to all the finalists for their…
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Choosing What To See: A Review of Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia
Review by Ata Zargarof What do you do when a rare disease strikes at the heart of who you are and what you love? It’s a question that haunts Naomi Cohn, author of The Braille Encyclopedia, a collection of micro essays and prose poems documenting her experience of progressively worsening eyesight. The culprit? Pathological myopia,…
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