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Rebecca F. Kuang’s latest novel Yellowface has been a runaway success. How it evolved is a story in itself.

By R.F. Kuang

I had the idea to do this ONTD original a while ago but I’m a procrastinator so I never got around to actually doing it. On Sunday when Ke Huy Quan became only the second Asian American to win a best supporting actor Oscar, I went to YouTube to find Haing S. Ngor's acceptance speech when he won for…

They’re everywhere. Everywhere you go there is a victim. It’s more than a pastime—it’s an industry. Racism, in particular, is a big draw. The Astros beat the Phillies this year in the World Series, but the big news, in some circles, was the absence of black baseball players on either team. To be sure, no one claimed that blacks were discriminated against in competing with whites playing professional baseball, probably due to the fact that there is no supporting evidence. Nonetheless, the lack of diversity, many commentators said, was indicative of a racial problem. 

Recent years have seen a string of scandals around white people pretending to be other races in order to obtain presumed advantages. Rachel Dolezal, then a chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, went viral in 2015 for claiming to be a black woman despite not having African ancestry. That same year, a white poet called Michael Derrick Hudson was found to be submitting poems to literary journals using the name Yi-Fen Chou. Hudson admitted to using the pseudonym whenever a poem of his was rejected under his real name. This type of incident is a centra...