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Thursday, 28 April 2022

Asian Cartography At Its Best: The NLB Exhibition and Literary Maps

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  Asian cartography has a very special place in my heart. Cartography is Western-centric but the maps currently on exhibition until May 2022...
Saturday, 23 April 2022

'Tastes Like A Bot, But Is Not': New poetry by Daryl Lim Wei Jie

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Guest post by Laura Jane Lee Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s sophomore collection Anything But Human is a provocative incantation of sensations and sen...
Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Can a machine translate a novel? Nicky Harman wonders.

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  Rather to my surprise, I found myself at a discussion of this very question at the Literary Translation Centre, in last week's London ...
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Oral History as a Practice of Care: Theatres of Memory from Singapore's industrial history

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  Block 115 Commonwealth Drive, Singapore's first flatted factory. Editor's note: Our poetry column takes a break this month as I di...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

Wesley Leon Aroozoo Shares His Inspiration for "The Punkhawala and the Prostitute"

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As the saying goes, “History is written by the victors” and with that the stories and documentations of the forgotten or lesser regarded in ...

The House of Little Sisters: Eva Wong Nava Writes About The Challenges of Writing YA Historical Fiction

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Thank you, Elaine Chiew, for the invitation to share about the challenges and issues in regard to writing historical fiction for a teenage a...
Sunday, 13 March 2022

Jokowi and the New Indonesia: How the world sees an Indonesian President Guest post from Tim Hannigan

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UK-based Tim Hannigan writes mainly about Asia, especially Indonesia. He is the author of three history books: Murder in the Hindu Kush ; Ra...