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Sunday, 4 July 2021

Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko

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Gordon Vanstone is from Canada. After graduating with a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University, he moved overseas and worked as ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Indie Spotlight: A Tale of Two Series - How Author Jeannie Lin Took Took Her Asian Steampunk Series from Traditional Publishing to Independent Publishing Success

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Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...
Monday, 21 June 2021

The Burden of the Language: A third-language poet speaks

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  Editor's note:  Our poetry column returns this month with a guest post by Yulia Endang, an Indonesian poet who works in Singapore. The...
Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Making the effortful seem effortless: Nicky Harman interviews this year’s winner of the Bai Meigui Translation Prize 2021, Francesca Jordan

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It has always struck me that the sign of a good translation is that it should read as if doing it was easy. Of course, I know that is an ill...
Sunday, 6 June 2021

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

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The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...
Tuesday, 25 May 2021

A World To Win: Tim Harper's new history of global revolution

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Editor's note:  Our poetry column takes a break this month! Still an history undergraduate at heart, I simply couldn't pass up the o...
Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Pot-sticker dumplings and scarlet gloop: Nicky Harman reviews Maisie Chan’s Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths, 2021, and looks back at Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet, 1982

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  Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths is a delightful story featuring the eponymous Danny, son of parents who run a Chinese takeaway, his frien...