We Do Not Part, Han Kang, translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Korean Quarterly, March 2025)

When the World Explodes: Essays, Amy Lee Scott (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2025)

The Violence of Love: Race, Family and Adoption in the United States, Kit W. Myers (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2025)

The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood, Kristen Martin (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2025)

Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Allies, Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Lori Holden (Raising Mothers, December 2024)

Louder than Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self Love, Ellie Yang Camp (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2024)

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, Anne Anlin Cheng (Washington Independent Review of Books, September 2024)

Woman of Interest: A Memoir, Tracy O’Neill (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2024)

The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America, Yuri W. Doolan (Korean Quarterly, June 2024)

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood, Kimberly D. McKee (Korean Quarterly, May 2024)

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, Margaret Juhae Lee (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2024)

In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family, Sara Docan-Morgan (Korean Quarterly, April 2024)

Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, Gretchen Sisson (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2024)

Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants, SunAh M. Laybourn (Korean Quarterly, March 2024)

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel, Hwang Bo-reum; translated by Shanna Tan (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2024)

Confrontations, Simone Atangana Bekono; translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen (Washington Independet Review of Books, January 2024)

I Would Meet You Anywhere, Susan Kiyo Ito (Atticus Review, November 2023)

The Leftover Woman, Jean Kwok (Washington Post, October 2023)

Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey through a Mixed American Experience, Raj Tawney (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2023)

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, Mirinae Lee (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2023)

Y/N, Esther Yi (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2023)

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America, Roxanna Asgarian (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2023)

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide, Hawon Jung (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2023)

Dust Child: A Novel, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2023)

Skull Water: A Novel, Heinz Insu Fenkl (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2023)

Cursed Bunny: Stories, Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2022)

Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family, Erika Hayasaki (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2022)

Under My Bed and Other Essays, Jody Keisner (Washington Independent Review of Books, September 2022)

Chinatown, Thuận; translated by Nguyễn An Lý (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2022)

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies: A Novel, Tsering Yangzom Lama (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2022)

She Is Haunted: Stories, Paige Clark (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2022)

Sleepwalk: A Novel, Dan Chaon (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2022)

Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption, Soojin Chung (co-written with Sara Easterly, Englewood Review, May 2022)

Violets, Kyung-sook Shin; translated by Anton Hur (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2022)

Border Less: A Novel, Namrata Poddar (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2022)

The Swimmers: A Novel, Julie Otsuka (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2022)

Pyre, Perumal Murugan; translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2022)

Lemon: A Novel, Kwon Yeo-sun; translated by Janet Hong (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2021)

Skinship: Stories, Yoon Choi (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2021)

All Sorrows Can Be Borne: A Novel, Loren Stephens (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2021)

Folklorn, Angela Mi Young Hur (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2021)

The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, Megan Culhane Galbraith (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2021)

The Lady of Zamalek: A Novel, Ashraf El-Ashmawi; translated by Peter Daniel (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2021)

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2021)

Aviary: A Novel, Deirdre McNamer (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2021)

In the Company of Men: A Novel, Véronique Tadjo (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2021)

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir, Rebecca Carroll (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2021)

American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption, Gabrielle Glaser (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2021)

The Adoption, Zidrou and Arno Monin; translated by Jeremy Melloul (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2020)

Jillian in the Borderlands, Beth Alvarado (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2020)

Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, Donna Miscolta (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2020)

The Disaster Tourist: A Novel, Yun Ko-eun; translated by Lizzie Buehler (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2020)

Fantasy, Kim-Anh Schreiber (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2020)

Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui (Washington Independent Review of Books, (May 2020)

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-joo; translated by Jamie Chang (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2020)

Run Me to Earth: A Novel, Paul Yoon (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2020)

Night Theater: A Novel, Vikram Paralkar (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2020)

Labyrinth: A Novel, Burhan Sönmez; translated by Űmit Hussein (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2019)

Accommodations, Wioletta Greg; translated by Jennifer Croft (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2019)

China Dream: A Novel, Ma Jian; translated by Flora Drew (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2019)

The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth: A Novel, Veeraporn Nitiprapha; translated by Kong Rithdee (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2019)

A People’s History of Heaven: A Novel, Mathangi Subramanian (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2019)

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins, Kathleen Collins (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2019)

Training School for Negro Girls, Camille Acker (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2018)

Mr. and Mrs. American Pie: A Novel, Juliet McDaniel (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2018)

That Kind of Mother, Rumaan Alam (Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2018)

Immigrant, Montana: A Novel, Amitava Kumar (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2018)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2018)

Kudos: A Novel, Rachel Cusk (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2018)

First Person, Richard Flanagan (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2018)

Good Neighbors: A Novel, Joanne Serling (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2018)

Everything Here Is Beautiful: A Novel, Mira T. Lee (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2018)

The Perfect Nanny: A Novel, Leila Slimani; translated by Sam Taylor (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2017)

To the Back of Beyond, Peter Stamm; translated by Michael Hoffman (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2017)

Manhattan Beach: A Novel, Jennifer Egan (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2017)

The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs, Janet Peery (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2017)

Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2017)

Everybody’s Son: A Novel, Thrity Umrigar (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2017)

The Leavers: A Novel, Lisa Ko (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2017)

Anything Is Possible: A Novel, Elizabeth Strout (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2017)

South and West: From a Notebook, Joan Didion (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2017)

Exit West: A Novel, Mohsin Hamid (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2017)

One Good Mama Bone: A Novel, Bren McClain (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2017)

A Separation: A Novel, Katie Kitamura (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2017)

Transit: A Novel, Rachel Cusk (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2017)

Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family’s Journey Through the Belly of Japan, (Flung Magazine, September 2016)

The Fortunes: A Novel, Peter Ho Davies (Washington Independent Review of Books, September 2016)

The Extra: A Novel, A.B. Yehoshua; translated by Stuart Schoffman (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2016)

Girls on Fire: A Novel, Robin Wasserman (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2016)

The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2016)

Tyler’s Last, David Winner (Flung Magazine, March 2016)

The Expatriates: A Novel, Janice Y.K. Lee (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2016)

The Incarnations: A Novel, Susan Barker (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2015)

A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea, Eunsun Kim with Sébastien Falletti; translated by David Tian (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2015)

The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel, Aleksandar Hemon (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2015)

Diamond Head: A Novel, Cecily Wong (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2015)

Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West, Suzanne Ma (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2015)

Outline: A Novel, Rachel Cusk (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2015)

Beautiful You, Chuck Palahniuk (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2014)

The Ten Thousand Things, John Spurling (Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2014)

Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Yiyun Li (Washington Independent Review of Books, February 2014)

The Valley of Amazement: A Novel, Amy Tan (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2013)

The Goddess Chronicle, Natsuo Kirino, translated by Rebecca Copeland (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2013)

Snow Hunters: A Novel, Paul Yoon (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2013)

For a Song and a Hundred Songs, Liao Yiwu, translated by Wenguang Huang (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2013)

Taipei: A Novel, Tao Lin (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2013)

The Abundance, Amit Majmudar (Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2013)

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Washington Independent Reveiw of Books, April 2013)

Trees Without Wind, Li Rui, translated by John Balcom (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2013)

Umbrella, Will Self (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2013)

The Antagonist, Lynn Coady (Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2013)

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis (Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2012)

Black Flower, Young-Ha Kim, translated by Charles La Shure (Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2012)

Three Tough Chinamen, Scott D. Seligman (Washington Independent Review of Books, October 2012)

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World, John W. Dower (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2012)

The Red Chamber, Pauline A. Chen (Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2012)

The Red House, Mark Haddon (Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2012)

The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson (Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2012)

The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka (Washington Independent Review of Books, August 2011)