Sarah Chihaya

4 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Sarah Chihaya

. Feb. 2025. 6:53 hrs. ISBN 9798217020744. $57. MEMOIR COPY ISBN Essayist Chihaya ( The Ferrante Letters) recounts her journey with depression and anxiety, reflecting on the books that helped her make sense of herself. The child of a Japanese father and a Japanese Canadian mother, Chihaya grew up in a predominantly white suburb of Cleveland, often feeling fractured, as she did not identify as wholly American or Japanese.

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Sarah Chihaya

”Awake in the Floating City,” By Susanna Kwan. Publisher: Pantheon. 310 pages. $28Bay Area rain has an insidious way of creeping into the bones — of people, of buildings. When I lived there, my bathroom maintained a clammy topicality, even in drought months. Once, a strip of paint and damp plaster peeled off the wall and exposed its innards, confirming my worst fear: that the whole house was largely glued together by black mold.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Sarah Chihaya

Bay Area rain has an insidious way of creeping into the bones — of people, of buildings. When I lived there, my bathroom maintained a clammy topicality, even in drought months. Once, a strip of paint and damp plaster peeled off the wall and exposed its innards, confirming my worst fear: that the whole house was largely glued together by black mold. There was an inevitably to it as sure as there was to the damp, the kind of ongoing apocalypse that you can only live with, never really prevent.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Sarah Chihaya

Books & the Arts / April 9, 2025 Love or Fidelity Sigrid Nunez on and off the big screen. Sigrid Nunez On and Off the Big Screen Two new films—Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Friend—attempt to adapt her work. Do they succeed? Ad Policy Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. This article appears in the May 2025 issue.

Mar 12, 2025 | kansascity.com | Sarah Chihaya

As a second-grader, I won honorable mention in a creative writing contest with a solemn, ink-blotted story about the Crucifixion. My prize was a crate of children's classics, among them "Little House in the Big Woods," "English Folk and Fairy Tales " and a richly illustrated "Pinocchio." These works formed the nucleus of a collection that continues to expand like the universe (to my wife's chagrin), constellations of science, literature and scholarly histories.