Mae Ngai’s newest publication in the Atlantic, The Painful Afterlife of a Cruel Policy, tells the story of Fae Myenne Ng and her new historical memoir Orphan Bachelors, an aching account of the author’s family in San Francisco’s Chinatown at the tail end of the Chinese Exclusion era.

Mae Ngai spoke in conversation with poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong at Rutgers-Newark, “Responding to Anti-Asian Hate: Politics, Organizing, and Education” on Sept. 28, and delivered the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at Boston University on Sept. 29, 2022.