Native Speaker (1995)

• Amazon.com

• GoldSea

• Rand Richards Cooper (New York Times)
• Carolina Hernández [Spanish] (La Jornada)

• Korea Times

• Penguin Putnam

• Prof. Noelle Williams (San José State University)

• "Over the Mountains, There are Mountains" (Jessica Lim)
• "Visions of Me in the Whitest Raw Light" (Tim Engles, Hitting Critical Mass)
• Want a Fight? Pick One Book for All New Yorkers (David D. Kirkpatrick)

A Gesture Life (1999)

• Chapter One (Amazon.com)
• Chapter One (The New York Times)

• Reading and Commentary (Chang-rae Lee)
  Audio and text excerpts.

• Nina Blount (iVenus.com)
• K. A. Chang (ASIA'ZINE)
• John Derbyshire (Washington Post)
• Julie Failla Earhart (The Charlotte Austin Review)
• Françoise Folliot [French]
• Joël Fompérie [French] (Jo Web'Zine)
• French critics (Racines Coréennes)
• Maya Jaggi (Guardian Unlimited)
• Johanne Jarry [French] (Nuit blanche)
• Michiko Kakutani (The New York Times)
• Irene Kim (JADE Magazine)

• Marie Labrecque [French] (Voir)
• Jennifer Lewy (Literal Mind)
• Heather Mackey (The San Francisco Bay Guardian)
• Andrew O'Hagan (The New York Times)
• Ed Park (Village Voice Literary Supplement)
• Béatrice Pire [French] (Les Inrocks)
• Angela Schader [German] (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
• Martine Silber [French] (Le Monde)
• Amber Dorko Stopper (BookPage)
• Scott Tobias (The Onion A.V. Club)
• Pauli Wai (hardboiled)

• Penguin Putnam