A Serf’s Journal
Grafton Tanner reviews a memoir that looks at the working conditions of big industry – how corporatism breaks, imprisons, and sometimes kills its workers.
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These Things Here and Now
Claire Qian reviews a volume that considers the role of poetry in times of trauma.
Leftover in China
Chloe Lim reviews Roseann Lake’s provocative new book on the pressures faced by women in today’s China.
A Pillow Book, and Palace of Subatomic Bliss
Karolinn Fiscaletti discusses two important new poetry collections from Canarium Books.
Where Time Turns Black
Stephen Davies discusses the latest by Agnes Ku, whose poetry/prose/image project confronts modern life in Hong Kong.
HRKB Essays: Populism and Digital Media
Following the revelations of Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in Brexit and the election of Trump, J.A. Smith asks whether the relationship between populism and digital media goes deeper than the rogue behaviour of particular companies and campaigns.
House of Lords and Commons
Mary Jean Chan reviews the latest collection by Ishion Hutchinson, published recently by Faber.
HKRB Interviews: Jean McNeil
In the first of a mini-series of interviews by Nigerian poet and novelist Timothy Ogene, Canadian travel and fiction writer Jean McNeil is the guest.
