• Phill Provance reads at the River Read Reading Series

    –Phill Provance will be reading at the River Read Reading Series on 9 January 2011. Check out the details here.  – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was nominated for a Pushcart…

  • Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution

    Author photo © Clare Jephcott Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution is a new chapbook by Alistair Noon. It records the moment when the Chinese People’s Congress recognised private property, and carries the reader forward into a very particular and…

  • What is the new dominant language of the internet?

    According to Nicholas Ostler in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel  (2010): The online communities that use languages other than English have grown meteorically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. From 2000 to 2009,…

  • Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre

    On Tuesday, we went to see Alan Ayckbourn‘s Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre. Jeff lined up early in the morning to take advantage of the NT’s day ticket policy.1 They hold back a number of tickets to sell on the day,…

  • Merry Christmas to friends and family

    “Champaign and cinnamon candle”. Photo courtesy of E & S On Christmas Eve, two friends visited us and we spent a joyous afternoon and evening together, eating, drinking, chatting and playing games. Happy times. The picture above was taken by them. May all our…

  • How will the world respond to the decline of English?

    Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel  (2010): The decline of English, when it begins, will not seem of great moment.International English is a lingua franca, and by its nature, a lingua franca…

  • Will Chinese be used as a lingua-franca?

    Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel  (2010): Chinese, like all the great languages of the modern world excepting English and French, remains very much a localized language in eastern and southeastern Asia,…

  • I’m all alone

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  • The Book of the Dead

    – “Truth is in my heart, and in my breast there is neither craft nor guile. — The Egyptian Book of the Dead.  –Today we went to the British Museum to see the Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the…

  • Alice Tsay joins the Cha editorial team

    –– We are very happy to announce that Alice Tsay has officially joined the Cha editorial team as Staff Reviewer. Alice has reviewed for the journal regularly since Issue #7 and her pieces are always insightful and well-written. It is…