A journal for reviews of Asian American literature.

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For AAPI Heritage Month, author and scholar Addie Tsai led a weekly reading series exploring the complexities surrounding mixed Asian representation.

A reading series: TORN: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna Storti

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Read about the latest in Asian American literature.

Book reviews, essays, and interviews.

“The Most Useful Thing About Remembering”

A review of Vinh Nguyen’s The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

By Justine Trinh

Finding light in the night

A review of Night Owl

By Brigette Hinnant

A review of Bethany Mangle’s Conditions of a Heart

By Justine Trinh

About Us

Soapberry Review is a new journal for reviews of literature by exemplary Asian American authors. We’re named after the Soapberry genus, whose fruits span across all of east, central, and south Asia.

We’re dedicated to amplifying the voices of Asian American authors and to providing critical and thoughtful analysis of their works.