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Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

Daisy Hernández: “I knew from my own experience that being seen is a powerful way to be loved.”

By Daisy Hernández | September 13, 2024

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

Iheoma Nwachukwu on Food, Language and the Immigrant Experience

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

From Eddie Ahn’s Graphic Memoir “Advocate”

By Eddie Ahn | April 17, 2024

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

Jessica Yu on the Power of an Oft-Maligned Trope

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu | April 1, 2024

“My Mother is Chinese and My Father is English...” On Defying Racial and Cultural Classification in Northern California

“My Mother is Chinese and My Father is English...” On Defying Racial and Cultural Classification in Northern California

From Tessa Hulls’s Graphic Memoir, “Feeding Ghosts”

By Tessa Hulls | March 7, 2024

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David Shih on Missing His Father's Death

By David Shih | August 21, 2023

As Seen on TV: Charlotte Gill on Adjusting to American Life

By Charlotte Gill | June 2, 2023

Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu on Navigating American Racism as an African Immigrant

By Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu | May 8, 2023

Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

Dina Nayeri on the Metaphors of Belief and Belonging

By Dina Nayeri | March 7, 2023

How a Second-Generation Latino Immigrant Became Known as the Boy Genius of Apple

How a Second-Generation Latino Immigrant Became Known as the Boy Genius of Apple

Michael Sayman on Navigating a Successful Coding Career While Being Pulled Between Identities

By Michael Sayman | September 21, 2021

A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

Claudio Lomnitz Examines Inherited Languages and Family Histories

By Claudio Lomnitz | March 1, 2021

A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

Catherine Rottenberg on the Storied Life and Overdue Revival of Anzia Yezierska

By Catherine Rottenberg | February 26, 2021

Personal Space: Matt Ortile on Grindr, Sex, and Decolonization

Personal Space: Matt Ortile on Grindr, Sex, and Decolonization

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By The Virtual Book Channel | June 1, 2020

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

By Rajia Hassib | August 19, 2019

What Does Anger Mean For the Immigrant?

What Does Anger Mean For the Immigrant?

On Coming to America and Taking Off the "Mask That Grins"

By Sharmila Sen | August 30, 2018