The Monthly Digest: January 2019

This past month, LARB was proud to publish a number of pieces by and about women writers of Asian descent, including interviews with Pilippine-American novelist Gina Apostol about her latest, Insurrecto, and Korean-American novelist Alice Stephens about her debut, Famous Adopted People, a review of Preti Taneja’s “brave and compulsively readable” debut novel We That Are Young, which “reastag[es] the core conundrums” of Shakespeare’s King Lear in an Indian setting,  Michael Adam Carroll’s survey of “Four Women’s Voices Reshaping Asian and Asian-American Immigrant Stories,” and two pieces from the latest issue of the print Quarterly Journal, Weike Wang’s short prose text “Ella” and Marilyn Chin’s poem “Ma’am, An American Tragedy.” Here’s to a diverse and inclusive 2019! — LARB Editorial