Eileen herself has been quoted as saying that “Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.” This might well apply to the reality of her own life as a Shanghainese woman who wrote feminist works about...
The first draft of this article sucked. The second draft wasn’t ready to see the light either. When I was about to dig the same hole a third time, my editor swooped in and helped me out. That is the life of a writer...
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] When Laksmi Pamuntjak published her first volume of poems, Ellipsis, Herald UK selected it as one of the best books of 2005. She has written for Indonesian weekly...
You can get the best artist in the world to draw the best graphic in the world, but a great graphic novel is not complete without the writer’s thoughts, words, and emotions played out between the images. That is what...
At the end of last July, the long list for the 2016 Man Booker Prize was announced. Scrolling through the nominees, I was pleased to see that Malaysian-Chinese born Canadian author Madeleine Thien had been nominated...