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Jun 16, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Leland Cheuk
This month marks the 35th anniversary of the June Fourth Incident, which is known outside China as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. “Tiananmen Square,” a new autobiographical novel by Lai Wen, the pseudonym of a Beijing-born immigrant living in Britain, wraps an emotionally satisfying coming-of-age tale around a riveting account of the months-long student protests and the horrific, fateful night that Chinese troops cracked down with bullets and tanks.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Leland Cheuk
This month marked the 35th anniversary of the June Fourth Incident, which is known outside of China as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. “Tiananmen Square,” a new autobiographical novel by Lai Wen, the pseudonym of a Beijing-born immigrant living in Britain, wraps an emotionally satisfying coming-of-age tale around a riveting account of the months-long student protests and the horrific, fateful night that Chinese troops cracked down with bullets and tanks.
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May 30, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Leland Cheuk |Lauren LeBlanc |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar
Whether you love fiction, nonfiction, mystery, or romance, we’ve got you covered! The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books coming out this summer that we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket. fiction Interactive content by Flourish Nonfiction Interactive content by Flourish Romance Interactive content by Flourish Mystery Interactive content by Flourish Ready to get your summer movies on? Here’s your guide.
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May 14, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Leland Cheuk
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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May 14, 2024 | 
npr.org | Leland Cheuk
What are the kids thinking these days? That seems be to the question behind the publication of My First Book, the buzzy debut story collection by Honor Levy. The 26-year-old writer was the subject of a viral profile in The Cut, earlier this month, in which she described the praise she received for her story "Good Boys" on The New Yorker website as "not undeserved" and demurred when asked whether she's the voice of her generation.
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May 14, 2024 | 
vpm.org | Leland Cheuk
What are the kids thinking these days? That seems be to the question behind the publication of My First Book, the buzzy debut story collection by Honor Levy.
The 26-year-old writer was the subject of a viral profile in The Cut, earlier this month, in which she described the praise she received for her story "Good Boys" on The New Yorker website as "not undeserved" and demurred when asked whether she's the voice of her generation.
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May 14, 2024 | 
everand.com | Leland Cheuk
What are the kids thinking these days? That seems be to the question behind the publication of My First Book, the buzzy debut story collection by Honor Levy. The 26-year-old writer was the subject of , earlier this month, in which she described the praise she received for on website as "not undeserved" and demurred when asked whether she's the voice of her generation. Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, Levy's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Leland Cheuk
“No, we couldn’t stay in the rave forever,” writes Geoffrey Mak in “Mean Boys: A Personal History,” a book of essays that attempts to find meaning in the art critic’s formative years, which span Trump’s presidency, COVID, and its aftermath. The title suggests the book will examine the author’s mean-boyness, but ultimately, this straightforward coming-of-age memoir is most concerned with the author’s meanness to himself.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Leland Cheuk |Lauren LeBlanc |Renata Sancken |Daneet Steffens |Chris Vognar
by De’Shawn Charles Winslow Spanning Colombia, Miami, New York, and Havana, these stories trace displaced lives. Survival hangs in the balance for her characters, but endurance becomes a signal of hope. Engel seizes upon the undeniable existence of mystery as she weighs confessions, hopes, laments, regrets, wishful thinking, endurance, and resurrection in this collection.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Curtis S. Chin |Leland Cheuk
Curtis Chin’s new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.” Photo: Courtesy Curtis ChinAs a network TV writer, social-justice documentarian, and the founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Curtis Chin is used to spinning many plates at once. But it was growing up inside Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, his family’s restaurant in Detroit, where Chin learned much of what he knows about himself and America.
