Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Archive: Reviews

A Philosophy of Exits and Entrances: Dimitris Lyacos's Poena Damni, Z213: Exit

by Michael O'Sullivan

A Shroud Around the Suicide: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending

by Feroz Rather

A Tale of Two Nations: Malay Sketches and Floating on a Malayan Breeze

by Goh Cheng Fai Zach

A Tale of Unsung Heroes and Obstinate Bureaucrats: Aqilah Teo's Ordinary Stories in an Extraordinary

A Test of Authenticity: Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction

by Grant Hamilton

A Verse for All Seasons: Travels and Trials in Pui Yi Wong's Yellow Plum Season

A Voice from the Edge

by Michael Tsang

Aesthetics of Imperfection: Paine's The Sounding Machine and Kitano's Birds of Paradise

Almost There: Kim Cheng Boey's Between Stations

An Offering from the Vietnamese New Formalist Poetry Movement

by William Noseworthy

Artful Interactions: Departure and Transformation in Gillian Sze's Fish Bones

Assassinating the Avant-Garde: Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist

Australian Voices: Adam Aitken's Eighth Habitation and Tom Cho's Look Who's Morphing

Banished!

by Katherine Foster

Bao Bao’s Odyssey Out of Hell

Bengal Feminist: The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Between the Tiger's Stripes: A Review of James Dante's The Tiger’s Wedding

by Drisana Misra

Beyond 'A Cultural Look and See': Chris Mooney-Singh's The Bearded Chameleon

Bloodheads, Dust and Mud: Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village

by Glen Jennings

Borders, Hut and Sky: A Review of Three Poetry Collections

by Jennifer Wong

Bruising and Healing: Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird and Melody S. Gee's Each Crumbling House

by Jason Eng Hun Lee

Capturing India: Jason S Polley's Refrain

by Ankur Agarwal

Carried on Wings: Anna Yin's Wings Toward Sunlight

by Goh Cheng Fai Zach

Checking Out: The Hong Kong Writers Circle's Hotel China

by O Thiam Chin

by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Classics Re-established

Colouring life, Colourful life: Sweta Srivastava Vikram's Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors

by Michael Tsang

Confessions: Fiona Tinwei Lam's Enter the Chrysanthemum

by Martin Alexander

Confronting Terror through Death Itself: Jeremy Fernado's The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death

by Peter van de Kamp

Consumed by Life: Laura Solomon's Instant Messages and G. S. Johnston's Consumption: A Novel

Consuming Love: Zhang Yueran's The Promise Bird

by Michael Tsang

Country of Origin/Point of Departure: Gilbert Koh's and Jee Leong Koh's Poetry

Creatures, Inside and Out: Tiziano Fratus's Creaturing

by Michael O'Sullivan

Deepest Yearnings Revealed: Grace Chia's Cordelia and John Wall Barger's Hummingbird

by Cecilia Chan

Defining a Hong Kong People: The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong

by Arielle Stambler

Defining the Untranslatable: Dictionary of Untranslatables

by Michael O'Sullivan

Defining Vietnamese Literature: Khế Iêm's Traces of My Homeland

by William Noseworthy

Donna Miscolta's When the de la Cruz Family Danced

by Dinah Roma Sianturi

Dressing up: Wena Poon's The Proper Care of Foxes

by Katherine Foster

End Games: Leung Ping-kwan's City at the End of the Time

English in China: A Miraculous and Conflicted Encounter

by Joel Heng Hartse

English Indian Poetry Today: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry

by Abha Iyengar

Englishes: Ann Ang's Bang My Car and Cyril Wong's Straw, Sticks, Brick

Excavating Emotion: O Thiam Chin's The Rest of Your Life

by Abigail Cheung

Flesh and Blood, Blessing and Curse: Sweta Srivastava Vikram's Because All is Not Lost

by Mary-Jane Newton

Foreigners’ Rip Entry into Common Lives in Beijing: Royston Tester's Fatty goes to China

by Samuel Tsang

Fragile Moments: The Emotional Precision in O Thiam Chin's Never Been Better

Giving Reader Access: Xu Xi's ACCESS: Thirteen Tales

by Michael Tsang

Growing Up Is Hard to Do: Thaddeus Rutkowski's Haywire

by Abigail Cheung

Heroes without Borders: Anoop Chandola's In the Himalayan Nights

by Glen Jennings

History through Literature: Mỹ Việt: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present

by William B. Noseworthy

Holding your Breath: Felix Cheong's Vanishing Point and Christopher New's Gage Street Courtesan

by Cecilia Chan

Identity and Re-Invention: A Review of Ching-In Chen's and Todd Swift's Poetry

In dreams: Cyril Wong's Oneiros

by Martin Alexander

In Quest of a Home: Karen Ma's Excess Baggage

In Remembrance of Things Past: Verner C. Bickley's Footfalls Echo in the Memory

In Transit: Xu Xi's Habit of a Foreign Sky

by Michael Tsang

Innovations: Three Collections by Kate Rogers, Gillian Bickley and Vaughan Rapatahana

by Michael Tsang

Inside Singapore: Fifty on 50

Islands Galore: Kulpreet Yadav's A Waiting Wave and Shivani Sivagurunathan's Wildlife on Coal Island

by Goh Cheng Fai Zach

It Is Not That I Don't Love You: It Is Just That Your House Is So Far Away

Journey to the West: The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity

Journeys and Journeys Inward: Reviews of Three Poetry Collections

by Edgar Y.B. Mao

Journeys through Home: Fifty Stories, Fifty Images and Home, Away, Elsewhere

by Cecilia Chan

by Jason Eng Hun Lee

Learning to Hear Mani Rao: Mani Rao's Ghostmasters

by Reid Mitchell

Lena Henningsen's Copyright Matters

by Ruth Y.Y. Hung

Leung Ping-Kwan's Amblings: A Review of the Right-hand Pages

by Douglas Kerr

Life Within A Poem: Dena Rash Guzman’s Life Cycle and Shahilla Shariff’s Life Lines

by Cecilia Chan

Lines of Poise and Balance: Jame's Shea's The Lost Novel and Joshua Ip's Sonnets from the Singlish

Linguistic Spheres: Khế Iêm's Stepping Out: Essays on Vietnamese Poetry

by William Noseworthy

Lost and Found: Huang Chunming Stories

Loud and Encore: OutLoud Too

by Michael Tsang

Love across Two Worlds: Review of Alison Wong's As the Earth Turns Silver

by Viona Au Yeung

Love Gone Wrong: Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong

by Reid Mitchell

Maori Voices: Reihana Robinson’s Auē Rona and Vaughan Rapatahana’s Schisms

by Michael Tsang

Memories of Borneo: Elsie Sze's Ghost Cave

More Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories

More than Meets the Eye: Sky Lanterns and The New Village

by Michael Tsang

Naked Honesty: Sunil Nair's When All The Lights Are Stripped Away

by Abigail Cheung

Never Quite at Home: Leung Ping-kwan's Stories of Personal Disjuncture

by Richard Freadman

No Easy Living: Daisy Hasan's The To-Let House

Nostalgia Is What It Used to Be: Comedy and the Colonial Upbringing in Dave McKirdy's Poetry

by Andrew Barker

Nothing Close to Dinner: Mao's Great Famine

On a Psychological Tightrope: Olga Walló's Tightrope!

by Michael O'Sullivan

On Being Blunt: Louise Ho's Incense Tree

On Losses in History: A Review of Brandon Shimoda's Inland Sea

by Craig Santos Perez

On Mental Landscapes: Anjum Hasan's Difficult Pleasures

by Shaily Sahay

On The Shelf of Dead Objects: Kristine Ong Muslim's A Roomful of Machines

by Reid Mitchell

Out in the Open: Out! Stories from the New Queer India

by Sucharita Dutta-Asane

Out of Tune Blues: Phan Ming Yen's That Night by the Beach and Other Stories for a Film Score

Playing it Pedestrian: James Norcliffe's Shadow Play

by Feroz Rather

Poetic Cosmopolitanism: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's Hula Hooping

by Michael Tsang

Poetry of the Global Economy: Toh Hsien Min's Means to an End

Poetry Wrapped in Beauty: A Review of Three Poetry Collections

by Cecilia Chan

Predication of Articulation: Voice and Silence in Jennifer Cheng's Invocation

by William Whitaker

Queering Sameness, Queering Difference: Nicholas YB Wong's Cities of Sameness

by Michael Tsang

Raiding the Inarticulate: The Poetry of Damon Chua, W. F. Lantry and Wong Phui Nam

by John Wall Barger

Reaching Out and Beyond: A Review of Southeast Asian Writing in English

by Kirpal Singh

Reading Under the Sun

by Abigail Licad

Ready for Close-up: Review of poetry by Yong Shu Hoong, Margaret Chula and Wen Yiduo

by Mags Webster

Reclaiming the Past: Andrea Berrini's A Far Better Thing I Do

Reincarnating the Text: The Deaths of the Butterfly Lovers

by William Noseworthy

Resurrecting the Abject: Nicholas Wong's Crevasse

by Michael Tsang

Resurrecting the Sacrifices of Modernity: Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mother

by Michael Tsang

Review of Leonard Ng’s, Dan Disney’s and Greg Santos’s Poetry Collections

by Pauline Burton

Revival and Reinterpretation in Translation

by Michael Tsang

Reviving the Past: John Biggs' Tin Dragons

Rooted in China: The Remarkable Chester Ronning

Scholarly Gems: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics

by Michael O'Sullivan

Selves in the City: Xu Xi's Evanescent Isles

Shifting Subjects, Changing Paradigms: A Review of Balik Kampung

by Bhanumati Mishra

Shirani Rajapakse's Breaking News

by Harshana Rambukwella

Singapore, Anthologised: A Luxury We Cannot Afford and SingPoWriMo

by Collier Nogues

Smoked Pearl, Paperdragons and Prayer Beads

by Viona Au Yeung

Songs of Experience: Jay Bernard's English Breakfast and Ami's The Desire to Sing After Sunset

States of Emergency: Yeng Pway Ngon's Unrest

by Jason Eng Hun Lee

Stop and think: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's Hiroshima in the Morning

by Michael Tsang

Stranger Than Fiction: A Review of Yu Jihui’s The Gunners of Shenyang

Sushi with Heathcliff: Minae Mizumura's A True Novel

Tales of Defiance: Cyril Wong's Let Me Tell You Something About That Night

Taming the Tiger: Exploring the Possibilities for Art in a Concrete Jungle

by Arielle Stambler

Teaching Teaching

by William Noseworthy

The 1.5 Generation: Karen Llagas's Archipelago Dust

by Abigail Licad

The Birth of a Nation: Nemat Imam’s The Black Coat

by Glen Hamilton

The Care of the Leviathan: Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years

by Glen Jennings

The Consumer's Art: Kate North's Bistro and Claire Lee's Ritual

The Crucible of Time: Musharraf Ali Farooqi's Between Clay and Dust

by Sucharita Dutta-Asane

The Deal with Detail: John Givens' The Plum Rains

The Dreams and the Monsters: Ocean Vuong's No and Jason Wee's The Monsters between Us

The Growing Mind: A Review of Jennifer Ching's A Painted Moment and Patty Ho's Heart to Heart

The High and the Low: Geling Yan's The Flowers of War

by Glen Jennings

The Immateriality of Home: A Review of Desde Hong Kong

by Henry W. Leung

The Inter-cultural War of the Sexes: Robert N. Friedland's The Second Wedding of Doctor Geneva Song

The Land of Blood and Stones: Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon

by Glen Jennings

The Last Wave, A Million Tsunamis

by Sucharita Dutta-Asane

The Letter and the Lens: Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Christopher Taylor's Immersions: Mumbai/Bombay

by Shaily Sahay

The Magpie and the Mirrors: Tropical Affairs and Something Beautiful Might Happen

The Mighty Pen: Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong's Voices from Tibet

by Michael Tsang

The Mischief of Word Play: Felix Cheong's Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems

by Martin Alexander

The Pause: Dave Chua's The Beating and Other Stories

by Grant Hamilton

The Persistence of Poetry: Han Dong's A Phone Call from Dalian and Lan Lan's Canyon in the Body

The Power of Children: A Review of Prashani Rambukwella's Mythil's Secret

by Michael Tsang

The Precarious Destitute: A Possible Commentary on the Lives of Unwanted Immigrants

by Michael O'Sullivan

The Problem of Bodies, the Problem of Water, the Problem of Man: Anindita Sengupta's City of Water

by Mary-Jane Newton

The Stark Reality of Japan: Charlie Canning's The 89TH Temple

by Michael Tsang

The Undersell: Growing Up Filipino II

The Ventriloquist: Andy Barker's Snowblind from my Protective Colouring

Three Generations of Hong Kong English Poetry: Leung Ping-kwan, Agnes Lam and Jennifer Wong

by Michael Tsang

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