Past-to-Present, Backlit
Joshua Calladine-Jones reviews Jessica Au’s deeply personal, cinematic, and impressionistic novel.
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The Circle of the Snake
Julian Willming reviews a text that explores our yearning for a utopian version of the past that never existed.
Imagining Asia
Walter Chan reviews a new work comparing the central museums of Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.
Unbury Our Dead with Song
Grant Hamilton reviews Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s captivating new novel.
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe
Briankle G. Chang likes… er…
The Matrix: Poems: 1960–1970
Karolinn Fiscaletti reviews a new edition of N.H. Pritchard’s influential collection of poetry.
Redgrave’s Ghost
Liz Wan reviews an erudite, captivating East-meets-West novel.
Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics
Lillian Ngan reviews a new book about the manoeuvres of identity in the quickly evolving political and cultural landscape of Hong Kong.
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