Love, Queenie:
Review: The Hollywood legend who spent her career passing as white (Sydney Morning Herald, May 2025)
PBS News Hour: New book ‘Love, Queenie’ chronicles life of trailblazing South Asian actress Merle Oberon (PBS News Hour interview with Amna Nawaz, April 2025)
NPR’s Book of the Day: A new biography tells the story of a South Asian Hollywood star who passed as white (NPR’s Here & Now, March 2025)
The secret life of an Indian Hollywood star (Times of India, March 2025)
Original essay: Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time (The Atlantic, March 2025)
Original essay: Hollywood Confidential (Air Mail, March 2025)
NPR Front Row Classics welcomes author Mayukh Sen to celebrate Merle Oberon (NPR Front Row Classics, March 2025)
Book excerpt: Merle Oberon Was Hollywood’s First South Asian Star. It Came at a Cost. (Slate, February 2025)
Review: Passing in Black-and-White (Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2025)
Review: ‘Love, Queenie’ Review: Merle Oberon’s Screen Secret (Wall Street Journal, February 2025)
Review: Why Merle Oberon, ‘Hollywood’s first South Asian star,’ kept her race a secret (Los Angeles Times, February 2025)
Taste Makers:
Mayukh Sen discusses “Taste Makers” on The New York Times Book Review Podcast (The New York Times Book Review, December 2021)
Author Mayukh Sen on his new book ‘Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women who Revolutionized Food in America’ (Boston Globe, December 2021)
Mayukh Sen celebrates seven immigrant women’s contributions to U.S. food culture in Taste Makers (The Globe and Mail, December 2021)
The new book 'Taste Makers' celebrates 7 immigrant women who shaped American cuisine (NPR’s All Things Considered, November 2021)
Mayukh Sen’s New Book Is a Love Letter to the Immigrant Women Who Defined Food as We Know It (Vogue, November 2021)
Food writer Mayukh Sen: ‘Immigrants have labored to shape the way America cooks and eats’ (The Guardian, November 2021)
Mayukh Sen on Call Your Girlfriend: Tastemakers (Call Your Girlfriend, November 2021)
Kirkus Reviews Fully Booked Podcast: Mayukh Sen (Kirkus Reviews, November 2021)
Levi’s Monthly Muse: Mayukh Sen (Levi’s, August 2021)