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Lit Review: ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ by Satoshi Yagisawa

by Fong Min Hun Elaine and I were in Amsterdam on holiday recently, and made a quick detour to The Hague to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and catch the Escher exhibit. On the way back to the train station, we passed a bookshop just down the road ...

Lit Recap: Author event with Red Hong Yi

Malaysian visual artist Red Hong Yi is renowned for her larger-than-life portraits and art installations created using everyday objects and materials not typically associated with art-making: socks, teabags, bamboo chopsticks, eggshells, and coffee stains, to name but a few. An architecture graduate who found her true calling in making art, ...

Lit Review: ‘How to Gut a Fish’ by Sheila Armstrong

by Fong Min Hun Sheila Armstrong’s debut short story collection, How to Gut a Fish, is a poised and masterful blend of the quotidian and the unsettling. The stories showcase an author with an array of writing styles at her disposal, ranging from the slow and lyrical, to the quick ...

Lit Review: ‘How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart’ by Florentyna Leow

by Elaine Lau On a month-long cultural exchange trip to Japan as a teen, Malaysian writer Florentyna Leow fell in love with Japan – so much so that the Petaling Jaya-native went on to study Japanese at university in the UK, and moved to Tokyo when a job opportunity came ...