Between the Acts Katie Kitamura closes her trilogy with a novel about theater – Jane Hu

i reviewed the new katie kitamura for @bookforum.bsky.social (it broke my brain): www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...

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The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

Fae Myenne Ng's father “would often describe exclusion as a brilliant piece of legislation, because it was ‘bloodless.’ ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’ ”

@hujane.bsky.social on how immigration law kept Chinese-American families from coming into being:

The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

i wrote about fae ng's memoir "orphan bachelors" and the collateral damages of the chinese exclusion act www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

The weight of ice on a tree described by a graphic of 274 full-grown corgis.

That terrible storm gave us the greatest graphic and unit of measurement: “full-grown corgis.”

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A Novel About the Therapeutic Impulse and Its Discontents “Loved and Missed” is a seductive, clear-eyed account of the delights and dangers of caring for others.

In a post linking to her New Yorker review of Susie Boyt's Loved and Missed, Jane Hu calls the book "one of the best new books i’ve read in a long time 💔." @hujane.bsky.social
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