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.

More than sex and romantic love

A review of Alice Wong’s Disability Intimacy

By Justine Trinh

A review of Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance

A review of Night Owl

By Adela Wu

Love poems in grief poems

Mai-Linh Hong’s Continental Drift and Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Staying Still

By Thu Anh Nguyen

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.