Book Discussion
A dialogue on Nicci Gerrard’s What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaDescribed by some circles as the “plague of our time” and the “disease of the century", dementia is the price that we pay for our longevity. Incurable and inexorable, the question for our time is less how dementia can be prevented but how patients, caregivers, institutions and society can work together to create meaningful and […]
Skype Session with Yangsze Choo
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaThe author of The Night Tiger and Ghost Bride joins us for a live author-reader discussion of her wondrous, nostalgic novel. This session is co-hosted by the Kuala Lumpur Book Appreciation Club and Lit Books.
Book Launch Party: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaPRAISE BE for Margaret Atwood’s much-anticipated The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to her 1985 critically acclaimed novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In the brilliant sequel, Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. The story picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. The Testaments has […]
Architecture & Independence
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaBetween 2001 and 2006, architectural historian Lai Chee Kien conducted a series of interviews with the key architects, engineers and artists who contributed to the landscape of Kuala Lumpur and its outskirts at the time of Independence. The 10 projects – Merdeka Stadium, Merdeka Park, University of Malaya, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Stadium Negara, Muzium […]
Meet the Author: Dato M. Shanmughalingam
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaDato M. Shanmughalingam's short stories and poems have been published in over 30 international and national anthologies in France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and the US. A winner of the British Council Short Story Prize and editor's choice for the Fish International Short Story Prize, Shan has been an international and current affairs […]
Eliot Weinberger in conversation with Eddin Khoo
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, political commentator, essayist, editor, and translator. He is the translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (2003). He is best known as the primary translator of Octavio Paz's (Nobel prize winning writer, poet and diplomat) works […]
Book Discussion: What I Saw in Malaya
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWhat I Saw in Malaya compiles early 20th-century French anthropologist Jeanne Cuisinier’s lectures and methods on observing the lives of Malayan peoples she encountered. Cuisinier has been presented as an anthropologist with an academic yet affectionate attitude towards her Malayan subjects, a gentle presence in Malaya that can shed light on the lifestyles of Malayans […]
Launch of 2020: An Anthology
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia2020 — Malaysians have been looking forward to this talismanic year for decades. In fact, we started anticipating it when our seventh Prime Minister was still our fourth. Is 2020 really the year when we suddenly become a modern, progressive society that is the envy of the world? Or have things stagnated and ossified beyond […]
Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Sumit Mandal
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEminent Arabist, translator, and traveller Tim Mackintosh-Smith will be at Lit Books to discuss his new book 'Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires' with historian and associate professor at University of Nottingham Malaysia Sumit Mandal.
