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My Year Abroad, about an American collegian’s adventures across Asia and in witness protection in New Jersey. Lee, a creative writing professor at Stanford University, also wrote The Surrendered(2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His On Such a Full Sea (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and his debut Native Speaker (1995) won the PEN/Hemingway award. The Seoul-born, Westchester, N.Y.-raised Lee can’t seem to shake his history as a Wall Street equities analyst—a job he quit after exactly 365 days (he went to the recruitme...

"Slamdance" feels like a movie that desperately wants to be something other than it is. You could call it a police procedural with the soul of a whimsical slice-of-life. It has a plot like a thriller and all the ingredients of a thriller, but it walks and talks more like "Echo Park," the previous film starring Tom Hulce. In that one, he was a goofy pizza deliveryman who moves into a weird neighborhood and meets some strange people, and in this one he's a cartoonist who already knows the strange people and finds one of them dead on the floor of his apartment.

Officials back NTHU bid for medicine department FILLING A NEED: Hsinchu Science Park Bureau director-general Wayne Wang said the park’s 150,000 workers and their families need more quality medical resources By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter National Tsing Hua University’s (NTHU) application to establish a post-baccalaureate medicine department has gained support from Hsinchu Science Park Bureau director-general Wayne Wang (王永壯) and other officials, the school said in a news release yesterday. The university made the announcement after Nat...

I have always been drawn toward stories of exile and expatriation, of people living as strangers in strange lands. I enjoy their bittersweet longing for other places and other friends. Jeremy Irons plays John, a character with some of those feelings, in “Chinese Box,” Wayne Wang's film about the last days of British colonialism in Hong Kong. John is not a sentimentalist about the purpose of Britain's long dominion in its last Asian colony; his latest book is titled How to Make Money in Asia. But he has grown accustomed to Hong Kong, to his crowded little room, to his regular haunts, to hi...

January 27, 2021 Author Amy Tan in a still from the documentary feature Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. The film was made by James Redford, son of cinema legend Robert, who died from cancer before it was finished. KPJR Films When James “Jamie” Redford, son of cinema legend Robert, wanted to make a film about Amy Tan, the Chinese-American author was not initially convinced. “I was reluctant to do this, because I’m trying to move toward more privacy as I get older,” Tan, 68, tells the Post from her home in Sausalito, California. “But Jamie was somebody I knew through friends and he w...