• Van Gogh and his oranges

    This post was originally written on 24th January, 2010. When we were having dinner with our friend Jonathan (also the prose guest editor of the second anniversary issue of Cha) in a Sichuan restaurant in Soho, London (by the way,…

  • Royston Tester and The Antigonish Review

    Congratulations to Cha‘s regular guest editor Royston Tester! His short story “Carnaval”, which is set in the Brazilian Amazon, received an Honourable Mention in The Antigonish Review‘s 40th Anniversary Literary Competition (TAR 40), and will be published in their fall…

  • Red Leaves

  • Adam and Eve

    Parts of this post were first written on 28th January and 1st May, 2010. Updated and expanded on 18th November, 2010.Adam and Eve This is an image from the wonderful Ebstorf Mappamundi, a Medieval European map of the world created in…

  • J. A. Tyler in Dark Sky Magazine

    – J. A. Tyler’s “Variations of a Brother War (Soldiering Triptych)” is now published in Dark Sky Magazine. Read the piece here.––J. A. Tyler’s fiction was published in issue #1 of Cha.––

  • Billy Collins in Poetry

    Billy Collins’s poem “Memorizing “The Sun Rising” by John Donne” is now published in the November 2010 issue of Poetry. Read it here. – – Billy Collins’s four Asian-themed poems were published in issue #5 of Cha. – –

  • Why are line references in poetry to the nearest factor of five?

    William Empson (1961) answers: Line references are to the nearest factor of five, because factor of ten are usually given in the margin of the text, and the eye can then find the place without further calculation. The show of…

  • "What does SCHOLARLY say, which is not said by INTELLIGENT and RIGHT?"

    A.D. Nuttall (2003) answers: The word, I think, connotes a quality of completeness: at the lowest level, complete literacy (never a colon where a comma should be); complete, though not redundant documentation; complete accuracy even with reference to matters not…

  • Enron at Noël Coward Theatre

    This post was originally written on 5th March, 2010. Last week, we went to see the West End transfer of Enron. The play, which was written by the promising young playwright Lucy Prebble and directed by the current it-boy of…

  • Ocean Vuong’s Burnings is out

    Congratulations to Ocean, whose first poetry chapbook Burnings is now available from Sibling Rivalry Press. You can purchase a copy here.  – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of…