You will be forever looking over your shoulder.

Boundaries blur inhabiting Blair before he was Orwell.

Kristiana Kahakauwila’s “boy-specific mind-reading powers”

Two Korean-American writers talk identity deprivation, East Coast Asian problems, and self-acceptance.

“I looked out the window and beheld my father, the Vulcan in the darkness.”

Once upon a time there was a girl who was born in a country where she didn’t feel at home.

Maybe he was left out of Braddah Iz’s sumo song, but those who know, will never forget George Kalima, a.k.a. Yamato.

Please, Lord, let him run out of breath. Of course, she felt awful for thinking such a thing.

In Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions, the invisible world is perpetually on the verge of becoming visible—and that suspense just kills me.

Slow-walking toward that good night.

“In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”

Moana screenwriter Aaron Kandell talks to Zoë Eisenberg about her novel Significant Others, the unspoken truth behind female relationships, and her golden rule of creativity.

These six books by local authors from national publishers reflect a state that punches above its literary weight. Will they open doors for others? Are there others?

Chris McKinney’s sci-fi Water City Trilogy paints the collapse of civilization and devolution of the human species in just 18 years. It’s also damn funny. Until it isn’t.

An interview with graphic novelist extraordinaire R. Kikuo Johnson

Angela Nishimoto takes on Hawaiʻi’s Lolita problem in Isabella’s Daughter.

Only in Hawai‘i could The Kid make a football fan out of me. And only then by surfing Sandy’s.

In Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, we behold the rarest of flowers: a young writer’s confident, unflinching, wholly surprising debut.

“The benefits would not exceed the social cost of gambling.”

Jeff Higa tracks middle school changes from escapism to representation via Malia Maunakea’s Lei and the Fire Goddess, a quest novel for keiki.