The Souls of Yellow Folk

Hardcover, 215 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2018

ISBN:: 978-0-393-24174-7
OCLC Number:: 1061148847

(1 review)

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade’s worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force.

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kab reviewed The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang

The Souls of Yellow Folk

1 star

He's got his finger on the wrong pulse, the putrid blob of bro culture and anti-pc dinosaurs. This is a fremdscham-inducing collection of clunky essays that are a long decade old, none of them written specifically for this book. The slivers of interrogation related to the title generally end up stained with an uncle to incels view.

Subjects

Asian Americans