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.
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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.
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.
Still Modernism
Pinky Lui discusses the consolation of stillness in Modernist art.
