Grace Talusan

The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King was an unthinkable tragedy that prompted a critical national…

In the lead up to this year's Muse conference, we asked authors, agents, and editors presenting at the confer…

Though I read voraciously as a child, I rarely saw myself reflected in the books I read-except for the Asian …

By the time we got to the Sorrowful Mysteries, I had fallen asleep, lulled by the warm bus and the whispers o…

Returning to the Philippines, the country of my birth, I finally looked like everyone else—which was not the …

I am living in the Philippines on a Fulbright fellowship for half a year, so the only way I can see my loved …

When my father was a boy, his mother hung him. Enter Tondo, a Manila slum, and stand in the kitchen of his ch…

An essay about my search for my pen pal from childhood, the writer Alfrredo Navarro Salanga

Two short essays I wrote while living in the Philippines

Talusan, Grace (2014) "Teaching with Collaborative Writing Projects: Creating an Online Reader's Guide to Kar…

My library card was a house key to my true home.

Angelina Jolie's confession opened the doors for women-like me-to come forward and talk about the realities o…

Angelina Jolie's announcement of her prophylactic mastectomy last month gave me the courage to write about my…

A third person essay about an autopsy assistant

I'm in Paul Revere's upstairs chamber, contemplating his bed. He left it one morning in April 1775, and that …

That’s when it hit me: I was an illegal alien. My younger siblings, who had been born here, had a right to be…

If, God forbid, you ever need a heart transplant, Los Angeles is the place to be.

"YOU MIGHT HAVE JUST lucked out," David Moncton, director of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, tells me. "Y…

In a picture window framing snow falling onto Faneuil Hall, my boyfriend, Alonso, presented me with a sapphir…

If you're only reading this review to find out whether Miguel Syjuco's novel is worth your time, here's the s…

The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan