BookDragon Books for the Diverse Reader

Apr 02

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang

Apr 01

The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat by Michael Robert Evans [in Library Journal]

Mar 31

Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days by Tak Toyoshima

Mar 30

Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos

Mar 29

City of Spies by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, artwork by Pascal Dizin

Mar 27

Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi

Mar 24

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka 008 by Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka, co-authored by Takashi Nagasaki, with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions

Mar 20

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett [in San Francisco Chronicle]

Mar 19

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Mar 18

Half Life by Roopa Farooki

Mar 17

Slightly Behind and to the Left: Four Stories & Three Drabbles by Claire Light

Mar 15

Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu [in Library Journal]

Mar 11

Seaglass Summer by Anjali Banerjee

Mar 10

Translucent (vol. 3) by Kazuhiro Okamoto, translated by Heidi Plechl

Mar 09

Translucent (vol. 2) by Kazuhiro Okamoto, translated by Heidi Plechl

Mar 08

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose

Mar 07

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vol. 10) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn

Mar 06

20th Century Boys (vol. 07) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller

Mar 01

Author Interview: Ruthanne Lum McCunn [in Bookslut]

Mar 01

Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines by William T. Vollmann [in Library Journal]