• Ouyang Yu’s Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion)

    Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion), A new Chinese poetry book by Ouyang Yu is available now. Price: $59.95 Titled Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion), this collection contains the lushest and most sexy poetry Ouyang Yu has ever written in Chinese. This…

  • "How to Open at Will the Window onto the Most Beautiful Landscapes in the World and Elsewhere"?

    Drawing for The Exquisite Corpse by Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jacques Hérold and Yves Tanguy, 1935. HOW TO OPEN AT WILL THE WINDOW ONTO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES IN THE WORLD AND ELSEWHERE With a large brush spread black gouache,…

  • Benelux 2009

    Finally, a new home for this little trip we took in 2009. – –

  • Kristine Ong Muslim in Every Day Fiction

    – Kristine Ong Muslim’s short story “Flowers, Secrets” is featured on Every Day Fiction. Read it here. – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • The tooth fairy’s biggest secret

    The curator said that this basin in a Paris hotel is the tooth fairy’s biggest secret! (But the fairy doesn’t know my secret!)

  • Gillian Sze in Poetry Quebec

    Two poems by Gillian Sze, “Calyptic Memory” and “Hands”, are now published in the seventh issue of Poetry Quebec. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • 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…