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[ESSAY] “The Switzerland She Waited For” by Shiwani Dhiman Author’s Note: This story is personal, based on conversations I had with my mother-in-law, Dahlia Chaudhuri, as she spoke about her memories of marriage, her younger self, and her long-awaited trip…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Unfortunately, I Return to Panahon: Glenn Barit’s Cleaners and the Materiality of Memory” by Richell Isaiah Flores Glenn Barit (director). Cleaners, 2019. 79 min. Critical for me is the word…
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[ESSAY] “The Chinese Girl in Paris: An Unfinished Portrait of China” by William Grice “Je te souhaite une vie heureuse”, a final dispatch from Paris before the correspondence fell silent. Letters from Rue de la Sourdière, a full moon over…
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[ESSAY] “A Look Back on Anime: Memoir, Poetics, and Literary Hedonism” by Franz Austin V. De Mesa Filipinos wave a One Piece flag as they take part in a protest against corruption at Rizal Park. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty Image On 21…
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[ESSAY] “Return Trips: A Japanese Canadian Writer Revisits Her Family Past at Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival” by Leslie Shimotakahara All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. ARRIVAL I think of the internment camps where my Japanese Canadian grandparents spent the Second…
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[ESSAY] “Shades of Huế” by Cheryl Chong The heat has a strange way of blurring things in Huế. We glimpse rust-coloured shophouses and dusk-toned homes, most of them melding into a haze as our chartered car nears the city centre.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Many-Headed Dragon: Myth, History, and The Chronicles of Japan” by Marsha McDonald Matthieu Felt (translator). The Chronicles of Japan—Volume I: Age of the Gods and Legendary Sovereigns, Oxford…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Mapping Belonging in Sonia Bahl’s Eighteen Inches Apart” by Namrata Sonia Bahl. Eighteen Inches Apart, Fingerprint, 2026. 362 pgs. In Eighteen Inches Apart, Sonia Bahl turns to the fleeting encounters…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Conan, A Barbarian: Inside Bulong, the Filipino Obsession” by William Carlo Antonio Sanchez ❀ Chito S. Roño (director). Bulong, 2011. 105 min.❀ Curry Barker (director). Obsession, 2025. 100 min. Curry…
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