Interview
Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I just invite everybody to get dirty with me and think about the questions’
Yellowface author Rebecca F Kuang says writers should be free to imagine characters outside of their lived experience once they do the necessary research and avoid replicating harmful stereotypes
Early in her new bestselling novel Yellowface, author Rebecca F Kuang delivers a searing account of professional jealousy that protagonist June Hayward feels when gazing into the eyes of the “beautiful, Yale-educated, international, ambiguously queer woman of colour”, Athena Liu. “What is it like to be you?” she writes.
“What is it like to be so impossibly perfect, to have every good thing in the world? And maybe it’s the cocktails or my overactive writer’s ...
