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Selected Personal essays:

Family : The Bedside Dispatches / The Homecoming Myth

Kitchen Life: Male Privilege in the Kitchen / Kitchen (Stage) Life / In Pursuit of the Stars

Travel: 48 Hours in Budapest / The Inca Trail Part I / Part II / Part III / JKT / 10 Types of People You Might Encounter at a Hostel

Selected Clips from The International Examiner:

Book reviews

'Island' a testament to blood, sweat, and tears of thousands | PDF Web

'Tiny Pretty Things' is Addictive

'Full Cicada Moon' explores teen struggles, biracial identity

'Enduring Conviction' Author Keeps Fred Korematsu Legacy Alive

Film reviews and festival coverage

SXSW 2022: roundup

SAAFF 2022: The Six

Sundance 2020: roundup

Sundance 2019: The Inventor

Sundance 2019: One Child Nation

Sundance 2019: Ms. Purple

Sundance 2019: Late Night

Sundance 2019: The Farewell

Sundance 2019: We Are Little Zombies

Half Life in Fukushima

Berlinale 2018: Isle of Dogs

Berlinale 2018: Die Tomorrow

Berlinale 2018: An Elephant Sitting Still

Berlinale 2018: Spotlight on Korean cinema

Berinale 2018: Spotlight on Chinese and Taiwanese cinema

Berlinale 2018: Yocho

Berlinale 2018: The Silk and the Flame

Berlinale 2018: Spotlight on Japanese cinema

Sundance 2018: roundup

Sundance 2018: Searching

Sundance 2018: Spotlight on Asian Women Artists

Sundance 2018: Dead Pigs

Sundance 2018: Kailash

Human Harvest

SXSW 2017Mayhem

SXSW 2017: I Am Another You

SXSW 2017Maineland

Tokyo 2014: roundup

Interviews

SXSW 2022: Director Ahsen Nadeem for Crows Are White

SXSW 2022: Filmmaker David Siev and family for Bad Axe

SXSW 2022: Co-directors Kishibashi and Justin Taylor Smith interview for Omoiyari

SXSW 2022: Actor Ke Huy Quan interview for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Director Chloe Zhao for The Rider

Documentarian Li-Shin Yu for Chinese Exclusion Act

Sundance 2018: Actress Vivian Bang for White Rabbit

SXSW 2017: Actress Greta Lee for Fits and Starts

SXSW 2017: Actor and co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon for The Big Sick

Full archive here.

Selected Clips from PopOptiq (formerly Sound on Sight):

Slavery in Cinema as Polar Opposites in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave

SFIFF 2014: 'Dear White People' a brilliant commentary on the concept of a post-racial society

SFIFF 2014: Richard Linklater receives Founder's Directing Award, debuts Boyhood

Interview with John Turturro for Fading Gigolo

Tokyo 2014: Big Hero 6

SFIFF 2015: Shira Piven on Mental Illness in 'Welcome to Me'

SFIFF 2015: 'Meru' Co-Directors and Subjects Talk Mountaineering

Full archive here.

Selected clips from Metro News:

Cannes 2012: Part 1 | Part 2

Venice 2012

Grace Kelly: the future of jazz

Becoming Britney

Selected clips from The Stanford Daily:

Film reviews

Amour

Cosmopolis

On the Road

Quick takes from TIFF 2011: Part 1  Part 2

Interviews

Author to auteur - a conversation with Marjane Satrapi

Bringing 'Tinker Tailor' to the big screen (Gary Oldman and Tomas Alfredson)

Judy Greer: that one girl you know from that one movie

Joss Whedon on 'The Avengers'

'Lawless' cast talks dynamics (Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, John Hillcoat, Nick Cave, etc.)

Tanya Wexler talks 'Hysteria'

Will Ferrell talks man-child characters and cowboys

Opinion

HBO's 'Girls' is more sex than city

No 'Shame' in NC-17

Full archive here.

Elsewhere:

Thought Catalog / On womanhood and other things

Mother of All Stories | Asian Women United / The Sweet Life

8 Asians / Language Deficiency & The Asian American Identity

Bonjour Paris / Confessions of a Culinary Student

The Daily Telegraph / The World's Best Chocolate Shops

Drunk Monkeys / Reinterpreting 'The Lobster' as a Cautionary Tale About Online Dating

Elite Daily / Wander or Bust: Edinburgh, Scotland

Medium / An iPhone Addict Goes Abroad / Cuba Libre / Defining Success For Yourself, Not For Others / Ni Hao, Konnichiwa / Numbers Are Arbitrary