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Writing a Memoir and Defining Kuleana: An Interview with T Kira Madden
T Kira Māhealani Madden is an APIA writer who taught as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at UH Mānoa in the spring of 2024, having also taught at Mount Holyoke College and Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founding Editor in Chief of No Tokens, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House,…
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A Detective Novel Gone South: A Review of Elevator in Sài Gòn
The year is 2004. Vietnam is now one, but reverberations of the preceding wars—and its chasms—remain. It is in this year that Thuận opens Elevator in Sài Gòn, her second book translated into English from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý. I have been looking forward to Thuận’s follow up in English since encountering her Anglophone…
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Redefining Narrative Through Bingo: A Review of Bingo Bango Boingo
Review by Gabriella Contratto Occasionally I come across a book that upends my previously held expectations of how to form a narrative. Alan Michael Parker’s upcoming collection of flash fiction Bingo Bango Boingo (2025) is such a book. The book alternates between stand alone flash fiction, and stories presented as bingo cards. The flash is…
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Rediscovering the Forgotten: An Interview with Leanne Dunic
by Alexa Cho Leanne Dunic is a biracial and bisexual multidisciplinary artist. She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, a mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent project is a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled, Wet (Talonbooks 2024).…
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Finding ʻOhana and Home: A Review of Clairboyance
by Andrew Hoe A friend from Big Island recently told me how Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles were foundational to him as a child, and I, also being a fan of Riordan, brought up the Rick Riordan Presents books. My friend lamented that, while there were so many cultures represented in that wonderful series, there were…
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