A meditation on skateboarding, civil liberties and memory. Inspired by the essay by Martin Wong, "Return to Manzanar", based on a trip he took with "Giant Robot" publisher Eric Nakamura.

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

In the spring of 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano needed a way to fill her time. She was imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center along with approximately 10,000 other people of Japanese ancestry.

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...

Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. The couple would later be incarcerated with their son at the Manzanar concentration camp during World War II. (The Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Special ...

Tracy Slater’s book offers much needed context about American internment camps beyond the Yonedas’ compelling story. Credit: Courtesy Chicago Review Press “Who would lock up a three-year-old?” This is ...

On the orders of the Donald Trump administration, National Park Service employees hung two highly controversial signs this week at Manzanar National Historic Site, a museum examining the property’s ...

These striking essays, originally serialized on Wilson’s Substack, This Is Precious, find her moving from the vigorous hope of 2020’s This One Wild and Precious Life toward a Continue reading » 1873: ...

SANTA CRUZ — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” died ...