• About
  • Photo Contest: AAPI Heritage Month
  • Community Calendar
  • Advertise
  • Subscriptions
  • Contact
  • Seattle Chinese Post

Northwest Asian Weekly


  • Community
    • Names in the News
    • Local
    • Business
    • Pictorials
    • Obituaries
  • Nation
  • World
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columns
    • On the Shelf
    • At the Movies
    • A-POP!
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • The Layup Drill
    • Travel
    • Wayne’s Worlds
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentary
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Astrology
  • Classifieds
  • Community Calendar
You are here: Home / Archives for Columns / On the Shelf

Wilson and Takita adapt world’s first novel, ‘Genji,’ into manga

June 30, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charlotte and Emily Brontë—writers many people are likely to recognize. Their classic works have been taught in classrooms around the country for generations.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 27 | JULY 2 - JULY 8

Book recommendations: LGBTQ folks saving the day

June 16, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In Godolia, tyranny runs rampant, thanks to the giant mechanized weapons, known as Windups, aiding the rulers.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 25 | JUNE 18 - JUNE 24

A life of crime is not for everyone

May 19, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A year after the death of her best friend Trina Low, Najwa Bakri enters her first Scrabble competition in the hopes of healing and moving on with her life.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 21 | MAY 21 - MAY 27

Watari and Wu’s new picture book inspired by daughters

April 28, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

As a young girl in the 1980s, Korey Watari could not find books with characters who looked like her.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 18 | APRIL 30 - MAY 6

Review: The satirical absurdity of Chou’s ‘Disorientation’

April 21, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Ingrid Yang’s future is laid out cleanly before her: Get her Ph.D., marry her fiancé, get a tenure-track teaching job and eventually retire and die of old age.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 17 | APRIL 23 - APRIL 29

Book recommendations: Protecting the ones we love

April 14, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Pahua Moua is known for being weird. The 11-year-old Hmong American girl can see spirits—including a cat spirit named Miv—and spends her days babysitting her younger brother Matt.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 16 | APRIL 16 - APRIL 22

Pham’s ‘7 Forms of Respect’ made possible by community support

March 31, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In her community-building work, Julie Pham has seen her share of friction between people.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, On the Shelf, Community News Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 14 | APRIL 2 - APRIL 8

Book recommendations: Banning books won’t stop us from reading them

March 17, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Things are starting to look up for Mia Tang and her parents. Two years after arriving in the United States, they’ve gone from living in their car to running and living at the Calivista Motel in Anaheim, California.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 12 | MARCH 19 - MARCH 25

Book recommendations: Why be perfect when you can be yourself?

February 24, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

With no boyfriend and no job prospects, Jasmine Tran finds herself back home after college, working at her parents’ donut shop.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 9 | FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 4

AAPIs in show business

February 3, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Alia Dunn just landed her dream job. After paying her dues at TV’s top outdoor travel channel, she’s finally able to produce a series highlighting Utah’s national parks—a tribute to her late apong, who first introduced her to the outdoors and sparked her love for travel.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 6 | FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 11

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 20
  • Next Page »

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Find us on Issuu!

Subscribe to our e-news

© 2022 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM