In 1824, Kaahumanu (1768-1832) ordered the destruction of all vestiges of the old Hawaiian religion on Kauai by burning wooden idols and tearing down heiau, including Kauai’s largest heiau, Malae ...

Peter Nathaniel Malae blasted through his first novel, "What We Are," in 18 months, writing 500 words a day, and he can recite the first two pages by heart, starting with the opener, "I try to figure ...

Malae’s ambitious second novel follows the rending of the Felice family over half a century as its members spiral apart from each other ideologically, physically, and emotionally. When Richmond and ...

A writer as good as Russell Banks wouldn't blurb a novel unless he believed in its author's talent, so when Banks compares Peter Nathaniel Malae to "a young Nelson Algren or Richard Wright, one of ...

SAN JOSE — Jacob Malae was a star defensive lineman for the Bellarmine College Prep football program a quarter century ago, his passion for the San Jose Jesuit school unquestioned. Now a junior ...

Malae's debut novel (after the collection Teach the Free Man) is a high energy rant narrated by a half-Samoan/half-white drifter trying to survive in a world bent on ...

Jacob Malae was a football star at Bellarmine College Prep in the early '90s, and, like many former stars, he returned to the school as a coach. But after a group of players decided to take a knee ...