• If you enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked… how do you display true tact?

    . In his recent LRB article on Wikileaks, “Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks” (recommended), Slavoj Žižek (2011) answers: . In Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: ‘Imagine you inadvertently enter…

  • What was the strongest candidate for the original tree of knowledge of good and evil in the seventeenth century?

    “Temptation”, from a German version of the Vita of Adam & Eve.  Marina Warner in the article “Bananas” (1995) answers: In the seventeenth century, when savants were as keen on gardening as on the Bible, the general opinion of herbalists…

  • "This is what your lips smell like?"

    This exchange didn’t make it in the final film. [You can compare the film and the full script (as of 06/09/2009) — many changes have been made.] –

  • Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong

    –– Measurements: Sketches from Hong KongEds. Melanie Ho & Simon OvertonHong Kong Writers Circle – The Hong Kong Writers Circle has released its sixth anthology of some of Hong Kong’s best English-language writing from the past year. Measurement: Sketches from Hong…

  • An evening of poetry, prose & Music with Gillian Sze and others (23 February, 2011)

    FEBRUARY 23, 2011 – AN EVENING OF POETRY, PROSE & MUSIC Visual Arts Centre School of Art / McClure Gallerywww.visualartscentre.ca350 Victoria Avenue, Montreal, QCProducer/host Ilona Martonfi Wednesday, February 23, 2011Doors 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $5MORE INFORMATION HERE. Read Gillian…

  • Priyadarshi Patnaik and O Thiam Chin in Asiatic

    – Priyadarshi Patnaik’s poem “Voices – House at Puri” [pdf] and O Thiam Chin’s short fiction “The Cleaner’s Daughter” [pdf] are now published in the December 2010 issue of Asiatic.  Priyadarshi Patnaik’s photograph “Flight of the Toads” is the cover image of…

  • Bob Bradshaw in Eclectica Magazine

    Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, “Building A Plane”, in the new issue of Eclectica Magazine. “Clouds like surf stretched towards Japan. // I started work on the plane’s belly, / and lived inside it for months.” — read the rest of…

  • Highgate Cemetery without Karl Marx

    On Saturday, we went to Highgate Cemetery where we took a guided tour of the West side. Highgate Cemetery is divided into two sections: the West and East sides. Most visitors go to the East side to see the graves…

  • Black Heart Magazine interviews Greg Santos

    Laura Roberts of Black Heart Magazine interviews pax americana poetry editor Greg Santos. Read the article here. – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. –

  • Xu Xi in The Straits Times

    There is an article on Xu Xi titled “Wonder Women”  in The Straits Times and it can be read on Haven Books website here [PDF]. – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. –