Swimming in Hong Kong
Christopher Hill reviews Stephanie Han’s new collection of short stories exploring the nature of identity and the concept of home. Continue reading
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews.
HKRB ESSAYS: BoJack Bauman
Following the death of legendary Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, Łukasz Muniowski uses his work to explore Sarah Lynn the Continue reading
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine
Rachel Fox reviews Tom Sperlinger’s book about the experiences of teaching under occupation and how politics interrupts education.
Dreamscapes of Modernity
Gábor István Bíró discusses a new theory of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’, assessing how the science of technology has been shaping identities Continue reading
Ema the Captive
Christopher Urban reviews the latest translation of prolific Argentine writer César Aira who wrote but never revised, producing more than Continue reading
Between the Trees and the Non-Trees – 在樹與非樹之間
Joel Swann’s epic series of 21 reviews of poetry published in Hong Kong continues with Agi Mishol’s short collection. Agi Continue reading
And The Monkey Learned Nothing
Sean Mahoney on Tom Lutz’s epic travel micronarrative compendium, Jimmy Cliff, and whether monkeys are manipulative arseholes as well as highly Continue reading
Bridge of Words
Paul Webb joins the HKRB to review a new book on the Babel-like nineteenth-century language of Esperanto and its unusual Continue reading
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