NYT’s top 100 films of the century got some things right, but not everything While Asian and Asian American cinema is represented on the list, Andy Crump points out Asia is made up of more than just South Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan Latest Why Zohran Mamdani’s primary win is a sign of shifting U.S. politics From publicly supporting Palestine, to fully embracing his Muslim faith, the New York mayoral candidate is a welcome challenge to the establishment Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s ‘Cloud’ is a strange, slow-burn tech thriller Premiering at Japan Cuts in New York, the latest work from the Japanese horror maestro is filled with paranoia Benedict Nguyen’s ‘Hot Girls with Balls’ is an honest look at Asian American trans women The author’s debut novel is a satire that explores sports, social media, and the relationship between two trans athletes Asians? In ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2?’ Groundbreaking! Simone Ashley, Conrad Ricamora, Lucy Liu, and Helen J. Shen, join returning cast members Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt Cambodian rapper VannDa: ‘We’re honoring what was lost while creating something new’ The Khmer emcee on how he uses hip-hop to inspire cultural dignity and national pride ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ star MASUMI is just getting started After diving headfirst into the Brazilian underworld and Japan’s Sengoku period, the actress now wants to step up her game James Beard Award winner Julia Momosé on the art of bartending The creative force behind Kumiko in Chicago speaks on how her Japanese heritage influences her approach to hospitality ‘Alice in Borderland’ season three promises new games in Japanese sci-fi thriller From the manga of the same name by Haro Aso, Shinsuke Sato returns to direct with leads Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya reprising their roles Jackson Wang gets candid about loneliness, grief and finding himself in ‘Magic Man II’ After taking some much-needed time off to reflect and reconnect with himself, the GOT7 alum is back with the sequel to his 2022 album, “Magic Man” Lea Salonga will be the first Filipina to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The nomination was submitted by the Manila International Film Festival, making Salonga the first Filipina to receive the honor Myra Molloy takes on the Underworld as Euridyce in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ The actress has made her Broadway debut as the first Thai Eurydice in “Hadestown” How Thanos in ‘Squid Game’ saved actor and rapper T.O.P. Writer Priya Sridhar examines actor and rapper T.O.P.’s work, drug scandal and the impact “Squid Game” has had on his career ‘F1’ and Done: When BIPOC actors get dropped before the finish line Two films, same director, same result: BIPOC actors cut—why what happened to Simone Ashley and Manny Jacinto is a harmful pattern ‘The Old Guard 2’ soars before taking a nosedive The Netflix superhero sequel goes in a more spy movie direction—at least at first Anti-immigrant rhetoric is driving a new wave of anti-AA+PI hate Recent reports show more than half of AA+PI adults faced hate in 2024 The U.S. Census wants me to pick a side, but I refuse With the reclassification of the 2020 census, Angela Wong Carbone reflects on how the U.S. government’s new rules seek to erase and divide a growing population of mixed-race citizens How Madame Gandhi collaborated with Mother Nature for her latest album The musician traveled to Antarctica to sample and take raw field recordings from the natural world for her latest project, “Let Me Be Water” Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ ends with a muted final season The South Korean sensation comes to surprisingly banal conclusions in its third and final volume Check out these LGBTQ+ books from the Asian diaspora Pride Month might be coming to a close, but these books should be added to your TBR list any time of the year! Ocean Vuong is more than just a sad gay, Asian poet Following the release of his second novel, let’s take a look at the growing legacy of Ocean Vuong 1 2 3 … 73 Next » Load More
NYT’s top 100 films of the century got some things right, but not everything While Asian and Asian American cinema is represented on the list, Andy Crump points out Asia is made up of more than just South Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan
Why Zohran Mamdani’s primary win is a sign of shifting U.S. politics From publicly supporting Palestine, to fully embracing his Muslim faith, the New York mayoral candidate is a welcome challenge to the establishment
Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s ‘Cloud’ is a strange, slow-burn tech thriller Premiering at Japan Cuts in New York, the latest work from the Japanese horror maestro is filled with paranoia
Benedict Nguyen’s ‘Hot Girls with Balls’ is an honest look at Asian American trans women The author’s debut novel is a satire that explores sports, social media, and the relationship between two trans athletes
Asians? In ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2?’ Groundbreaking! Simone Ashley, Conrad Ricamora, Lucy Liu, and Helen J. Shen, join returning cast members Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt
Cambodian rapper VannDa: ‘We’re honoring what was lost while creating something new’ The Khmer emcee on how he uses hip-hop to inspire cultural dignity and national pride
‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ star MASUMI is just getting started After diving headfirst into the Brazilian underworld and Japan’s Sengoku period, the actress now wants to step up her game
James Beard Award winner Julia Momosé on the art of bartending The creative force behind Kumiko in Chicago speaks on how her Japanese heritage influences her approach to hospitality
‘Alice in Borderland’ season three promises new games in Japanese sci-fi thriller From the manga of the same name by Haro Aso, Shinsuke Sato returns to direct with leads Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya reprising their roles
Jackson Wang gets candid about loneliness, grief and finding himself in ‘Magic Man II’ After taking some much-needed time off to reflect and reconnect with himself, the GOT7 alum is back with the sequel to his 2022 album, “Magic Man”
Lea Salonga will be the first Filipina to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The nomination was submitted by the Manila International Film Festival, making Salonga the first Filipina to receive the honor
Myra Molloy takes on the Underworld as Euridyce in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ The actress has made her Broadway debut as the first Thai Eurydice in “Hadestown”
How Thanos in ‘Squid Game’ saved actor and rapper T.O.P. Writer Priya Sridhar examines actor and rapper T.O.P.’s work, drug scandal and the impact “Squid Game” has had on his career
‘F1’ and Done: When BIPOC actors get dropped before the finish line Two films, same director, same result: BIPOC actors cut—why what happened to Simone Ashley and Manny Jacinto is a harmful pattern
‘The Old Guard 2’ soars before taking a nosedive The Netflix superhero sequel goes in a more spy movie direction—at least at first
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is driving a new wave of anti-AA+PI hate Recent reports show more than half of AA+PI adults faced hate in 2024
The U.S. Census wants me to pick a side, but I refuse With the reclassification of the 2020 census, Angela Wong Carbone reflects on how the U.S. government’s new rules seek to erase and divide a growing population of mixed-race citizens
How Madame Gandhi collaborated with Mother Nature for her latest album The musician traveled to Antarctica to sample and take raw field recordings from the natural world for her latest project, “Let Me Be Water”
Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ ends with a muted final season The South Korean sensation comes to surprisingly banal conclusions in its third and final volume
Check out these LGBTQ+ books from the Asian diaspora Pride Month might be coming to a close, but these books should be added to your TBR list any time of the year!
Ocean Vuong is more than just a sad gay, Asian poet Following the release of his second novel, let’s take a look at the growing legacy of Ocean Vuong
