On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Stuart Walton reviews multi-award winning poet Ocean Vuong’s autobiographical debut novel, finding a writer dexterously at home in both elements.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
Tom Marling reviews a collection of animal fables that adds an elegant new dimension to the anglophone understanding of the Chinese literary tradition.
Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box
May Huang reviews a new collection of poems from Hong Kong.
Found in Transition
Ka-Lee Wong reviews an assessment of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.
The Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Matthew Wu reviews a novel crafted from the personal stories of those who fled mainland China as a consequence of WWII and the Chinese Civil War.
HKRB Essays: Mountains and Rivers of Bicycles without End
Jeff Clapp thinks on beauty and revulsion in the sharing economy.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Sasha Dovzhyk on the haunting banality of Europe’s biggest nuclear catastrophe.
Beds in the East, and The Experiment of the Tropics
Theophilus Kwek reviews two new collections of poetry.
