• Blue Valentine

    On Tuesday I saw the excellent Blue Valentine in the West End. A lot has already been written about Derek Cianfrance’s film and its unconventional structure, which cuts between the beginning and the end of the central love story. I don’t…

  • Will you take me to that beach?

    Maybe one day. “A beach in Saint-Malo, a harbour town, in Brittany, but a little closer to my part of Brittany (but still not exactly there). August 2005.”

  • Alistair Noon in The Black Herald

    Image cover © Emily Richardson 2008 (Still from the film Cobra Mist) Design: Sandrine Duvillier. Alistair Noon has new work published in the début issue of The Black Herald. Check out this new magazine here.  – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue…

  • Black Heart Magazine interviews Gillian Sze

    Laura Roberts of Black Heart Magazine interviews Branch Magazine editor Gillian Sze. Read the article here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • Sapling interviews Eddie Tay

    Eddie Tay, Reviews Editor of Cha, is interviewed by Sapling, a weekly newsletter about the world of independent publishing published by Black Lawrence Press. Each issue of Sapling is packed with useful information including a literary contest currently accepting submissions;…

  • On pleasures

    – John Guillory in “It Must Be Abstract” has the following to say about ‘pleasures’: Complex pleasures may be mixtures of pleasure and pain, but complex pleasures are only preferable to simple ones when it is complex pleasures that we…

  • The King’s Speech

    Last night, we went to watch The King’s Speech in the local cinema. The house was full, even for the ten-o’clock showing. I have liked Colin Firth since his charming turn as Darcy in Andrew Davies’s 1995 BBC adaptation of…

  • "I want to see the ocean."

    Reader, we didn’t go to Canterbury. We went to Brighton instead. There, we saw the ocean. The beach reminded us of some nicer Hong Kong beaches, where we went on occasion. The seagulls flew freely. The lovely chubby kids fell on the pebbles,…

  • "Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light."

    . … from the TV seriesNorthern Exposure: . Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from…

  • I’m curious – Are you "Roy"?

    UPDATE: READER, HE HAS BEEN FOUND. THANK YOU, ALL. – We have a new Fine Tea article up, which is an analysis of Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions”. Someone called “Roy” left us a comment and I am curious. If you…