There was a cathartic validation while reading Roshan Sethi’s debut novel, The Simp, a searingly realistic tale about the absurdity of Hollywood in all its white splendor. The Simp follows the aforementioned Raj, an unemployed actor who lands a job as an assistant...
Since the world is less-than-desirable when it comes to civil rights as of late, I recommend the book In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror by ACLU Executive Director and lawyer Anthony D. Romero and author and journalist...
AI is all that anyone can talk about, but no one is really saying anything. Enter Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. As a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, Buolamwini was doing work on facial...
I am more of a non-fiction reader, but once in a while I will read a novel that just sticks to my soul. Melissa Chadburn’s A Tiny Upward Shove not only sticks to my ribs but haunts me with its thoughtful use of Filipino folklore to tell the personal,...
As journalism and media enter an era of highly scrutinized and policed through an authoritarian lens, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis’s book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control show us how morally panicked gatekeepers have been trying...
In Jeff Chang’s prolific book Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, he gives us one of the most insanely comprehensive deep dives into one of the most – if not thee most influential, trailblazing Asian American in history. The dense,...
With all that is happening in Hollywood, I can’t help but think of how Maureen Ryan’s book Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood is more relevant than ever. And as the book suggests, perhaps we should burn it down. Vanity...
If you turn to page 130 of Tre’vell Anderson’s book “We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film”, you will see a name within the text. And that name is Dino-Ray Ramos. I’m not putting shine on “We See Each...
Author Laurel Flores Fantauzzo’s The First Impulse is a journey. Detailing the lives and tragic deaths of Filipino-Canadian film critic Alexis Tioseco and his wife, Slovenian film journalist Nika Bohinc. After being captivated by Tioseco’s story,...
