Merle Oberon, a Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret
The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for…
Bringing Diverse Voices to Book Publishing
What are some specific examples of changes you’ve implemented? I canceled our big standing acquisitions meetings, along with other reports and forms, as they didn’t serve our purpose of connecting…
When This Stanford Professor Got Cancer, He Decided to Teach a Class About It
Dr. Bryant Lin stood before his class at Stanford in September, likely one of the last he would ever teach. Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had been…
Dorothy Chin Brandt, Trailblazing Asian American Judge, Dies at 78
Dorothy Chin Brandt, a lawyer who in 1987 became the first female Asian American judge in New York State — and, as such, one of the first two Asian Americans…
Why Amy Tan Decided Not to Shred Her Archive
Many authors dream of having their notes, drafts and scraps preserved forever in a prestigious literary archive. But not Amy Tan. Until recently, she had left written instructions for everything…