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Thursday, 28 July 2022

'Possibility and Communion': An interview with Jonathan Chan

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Editor's note: When I arrived at the launch of his debut collection going home a fortnight ago, the first thing that struck me about Jo...
Saturday, 23 July 2022

Quick notice: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood’s Constellations of Eve

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Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood is a Vietnamese and American author. After having spent 20 years in the U.S, she is now a reversed immigrant living...
Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Being upbeat about being downbeat: Nicky Harman reviews "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki"

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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki , by Baek Sehee, translated from Korean by Anton Hur. (Bloomsbury, 2022)   Baek Sehee  is a succe...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

Quite Lit, and Rightly So: Celebrating 20 Years of QLRS

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Publisher Fong Hoe Fang introduces the QLRS editors Clearly, in-person events have returned in style to Singapore’s poetry circuit. The past...
Thursday, 30 June 2022

'Badass' Women in Singapore Art and Literature

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Source:Wikicommons, Movie Poster Maxine Hong Kingston’s  The Woman Warrior  (The Library of America, repr. 2022) had this one line, “Girls a...
Wednesday, 15 June 2022

In Praise of Readers' Reviews: The Story of the Stone on Goodreads

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  Nicky Harman peruses Goodreads for reviews of a classic Chinese novel. As a translator, I’ve always been fascinated by how readers react t...
Saturday, 4 June 2022

The Four Immigrants Manga by Henry Kiyama

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 The Japanese immigrant experience in America is often ignored, which makes works like The Four Immigrants Manga an invaluable record, both...