Bylines from 2025: Boston Globe, Washington Post, NPR, and others

Leland Cheuk

It’s been too long since I posted here–life and all–but here are my bylines from this past year:

Boston Globe: “Devoted, united, then separated by history”
Washington Post: “In ‘My Documents,’ passive Americans accept their dystopian reality.”
Boston Globe: “A girl and her father wash up in mysterious shelter by the sea, where they meet a trio of philosophers.“
NPR: “17 new books our critics can’t wait to read this summer”
Omnium Gatherum Quarterly: “An Important Book“
NPR: “Books We Love 2024,” and “Books We Love 2025“
Korean Literature Now: “Lee Yuri Brings Light and Laughter to Darkness“

NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN selected as 1 of 29 books by authors from underrepresented backgrounds available for option #TheIPList #PathosLab

Leland Cheuk

From Hollywood Reporter:

“The current Peak IP era presents a potential pitfall for diversity in media, considering a 2020 New York Times feature that found 95 percent of the books published by the major publishing houses since 1950 were written by white authors.

That’s why nonprofit Pathos Labs, the think tank that looks to use media and entertainment for positive change, has created The IP List, an industry-crowdsourced index of books by authors from underrepresented backgrounds that are available for option. The list defines “underrepresented” as any community that hasn’t been portrayed in the media with authenticity, nuance and their own voices, and can include class, ability, geographic location, religion, ethnicity, race, sex, gender and sexual orientation.”

Read the rest of the article here.

Bylines! Bylines! Bylines! At the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR and the Washington Post

Leland Cheuk

As usual, I’ve done a lot of writing about books in the past year. Here are my bylines over the past 9 months.

Boston Globe, “Fancy Feast champions the power of sexual expression.”
San Francisco Chronicle, “Life lessons learned in Detroit family’s Chinese restaurant.”
NPR, “Best Books of 2023“
Boston Globe, “55 books we loved in 2023“
Korean Literature Now, “Mater 2-10, A Train Ride Through A Century of Korean History.”
NPR, “Honor Levy’s ‘My First Book’“
Boston Globe, “Geoffrey Mak’s ‘Mean Boys’“
Boston Globe, “75 books we’re most excited to read this summer.”
Washington Post, “‘Tiananmen Square’ by Lai Wen“