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    CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: First Impressions, Essays, En Route, Xi Xiβ€”Can We Say, Write to Power, and Auditory Cortex

    Header artwork by Annysa Ng 茢 First Impressionsclick for information 茢 Essays click for information 茢 En Routeclick for information 茢 XI XIβ€”Can We Sayclick for information 茢 Write to Powerclick for information 茢 Auditory Cortexclick for information

  • [REVIEW] “Improvising Revolution: Hong Kong’s Protests Through the Lens of Ming-sho Ho” by Jennifer Eagleton

    πŸ“RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ming-sho Ho, Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests, Temple University Press, 2025. 258 pgs. The Hong Kong protests of 2019, which erupted in opposition to the…

    Jun 29, 2025
    [REVIEW] “Improvising Revolution: Hong Kong’s Protests Through the Lens of Ming-sho Ho” by Jennifer Eagleton

  • [REVIEW] “Walking in Unison?: On Hon Lai Chu’s 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 π΅π‘œπ‘‘π‘–π‘’π‘ ” by Jennifer Eagleton

    πŸ“RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Mending Bodies. Hon Lai Chu (author), Jacqueline Leung (translator), Mending Bodies, Two Lines Press, 2025. 240 pgs. For those who haven’t read the original Chinese…

    Jun 23, 2025
    [REVIEW] “Walking in Unison?: On Hon Lai Chu’s 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 π΅π‘œπ‘‘π‘–π‘’π‘ ” by Jennifer Eagleton

  • [REVIEW] “Tender Aberrations: Reading Sayaka Murata’s 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 πΆπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘šπ‘œπ‘›π‘¦” by Tyran Grillo

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Life Ceremony. Sayaka Murata (author), Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator), Life Ceremony, Granta Books, 2022. 266 pgs. Whenever I encounter the name Sayaka Murata,…

    Jun 23, 2025
    [REVIEW] “Tender Aberrations: Reading Sayaka Murata’s 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 πΆπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘šπ‘œπ‘›π‘¦” by Tyran Grillo

  • [REVIEW] β€œAdaptation and the Illusion of Home: Manjushree Thapa’s π‘†π‘’π‘Žπ‘ π‘œπ‘›π‘  π‘œπ‘“ πΉπ‘™π‘–π‘”β„Žπ‘‘β€ by Abhinav Tulachan

    茢 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茢 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] β€œAdaptation and the Illusion of Home: Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight” by Abhinav Tulachan Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight, Penguin India, 2011. 226 pgs. β€œThe flap of a butterfly’s wings…

    Jun 22, 2025
    [REVIEW] β€œAdaptation and the Illusion of Home: Manjushree Thapa’s π‘†π‘’π‘Žπ‘ π‘œπ‘›π‘  π‘œπ‘“ πΉπ‘™π‘–π‘”β„Žπ‘‘β€ by Abhinav Tulachan

  • [EXCLUSIVE] “Love Is Time: A Conversation on π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π»π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘£π‘’π‘ π‘‘” by NIRRIS NAGENDRARAJAH and Doua Moua”

    Doua Moua and Nirris Nagendrarajah Editor’s note: In this interview, Nirris Nagendrarajah talks to screenwriter and actor Doua Moua; they discuss The Harvest, a tender exploration of a Hmong family navigating illness, identity, and intergenerational conflict. Inspired by his own experiences…

    Jun 20, 2025
    [EXCLUSIVE] “Love Is Time: A Conversation on π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π»π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘£π‘’π‘ π‘‘” by NIRRIS NAGENDRARAJAH and Doua Moua”

  • [REVIEW] “Between Heckle & Hush: The Public & Private Voices of a Poet” by Michael Ingham

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204β€”305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. β€œSo choose your enemies, I’ve chosen…

    Jun 19, 2025
    [REVIEW] “Between Heckle & Hush: The Public & Private Voices of a Poet” by Michael Ingham

  • [REVIEW] β€œWord-Kissed Truths: The Earned Simplicity of Andrew Barker’s Sonnets” by Jason Eng Hun Lee

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204β€”305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. Named after the bar where the…

    Jun 19, 2025
    [REVIEW] β€œWord-Kissed Truths: The Earned Simplicity of Andrew Barker’s Sonnets” by Jason Eng Hun Lee

  • [REVIEW] “One of the Greatest Writers, Full Stop: Lu Xun’s π‘Šπ‘–π‘™π‘‘ πΊπ‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘ π‘  & π‘€π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘›π‘–π‘›π‘” π΅π‘™π‘œπ‘ π‘ π‘œπ‘šπ‘  πΊπ‘Žπ‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘‘ π‘Žπ‘‘ π·π‘’π‘ π‘˜” by Robert Postings

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Also read “Feature: Lu Xun” in Cha. Lu Xun (author), Eileen J. Cheng (translator), Theodore Huters (editor), Wild Grass & Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, Harvard University Press,…

    Jun 16, 2025
    [REVIEW] “One of the Greatest Writers, Full Stop: Lu Xun’s π‘Šπ‘–π‘™π‘‘ πΊπ‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘ π‘  & π‘€π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘›π‘–π‘›π‘” π΅π‘™π‘œπ‘ π‘ π‘œπ‘šπ‘  πΊπ‘Žπ‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘‘ π‘Žπ‘‘ π·π‘’π‘ π‘˜” by Robert Postings

  • [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] β€œπ‘‡β„Žπ‘’ 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑒 at 25: Kim Ki Duk’s Blooming Poem on the Island of Solitude” by G.A. Gowtham

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kim Ki-duk (director), The Isle, 2000. 90 min. Some films are like waves that gently lap against the shores of our memories; others, however, jolt us by revealing…

    Jun 16, 2025
    [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] β€œπ‘‡β„Žπ‘’ 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑒 at 25: Kim Ki Duk’s Blooming Poem on the Island of Solitude” by G.A. Gowtham

  • [EXCLUSIVE] β€œπΎπ‘€π‘Žπ‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›: Horror and Folklore as an Art Form” by Tushi Gogoi

    πŸ“ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Masaki Kobayashi (director), Kwaidan, 1964. 175 min. Maβ€”a profound Japanese concept that encapsulates the essence of stillness. The term refers to the empty spaces in between, a fleeting suspension…

    Jun 16, 2025
    [EXCLUSIVE] β€œπΎπ‘€π‘Žπ‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›: Horror and Folklore as an Art Form” by Tushi Gogoi
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