• Nikesh Murali in The Editor’s Choice Contemporary Short Stories in Indian English

    – Nikesh Murali’s “The Prostitute” is reprinted in The Editor’s Choice Contemporary Short Stories in Indian English.  – – Nikesh Murali’s fiction was published in issue #8 of Cha. – –

  • The peaceful spread of Chinese food

    Outside lands contiguous with China, emigration has never been promoted by the Chinese state. The spread of Chinese cooking around the world has therefore been colonial but not imperial, carried by peaceful migrants in self-imposed “economic exile.” At least, this…

  • Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 47

    = Issue #47 of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) now online. Read poetry by Russell Endo, Kelley White, L. Ward Abel, Forrest Hamer, Lee Upton, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Christine Hamm, and Cha contributor Arlene Ang. Also included in this issue is…

  • Luisa A. Igloria’s poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize

    Congratulations to Luisa A. Igloria whose poem “Paradise” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Asia Writes. Learn more about AW‘s nominations here. – – Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. – –

  • What is the food that unites us with all our ancestors?

    Felipe Fernandez-Armesto answers: For almost uniquely, in the repertoire of modern Western cuisine, the oyster is eaten uncooked and unkilled. It is the nearest thing we have to “natural” food—the only dish which deserves to be called “au naturel” without…

  • Greg Santos joins Upstairs at Duroc

    – Greg Santos has joined the editorial team of the Paris-based Upstairs at Duroc and the publication is now calling for submissions for its thirteenth issue. Visit Greg’s blog to learn more how to submit works.  – Greg Santos’s poetry was…

  • Montaigne

    Who doesn’t like Montaigne (1533-1592), the very man who invented the essay genre? His writings are fun, wise, philosophical, sometimes provocative. He says these things: “If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they…

  • You always hurt the one you love

    –Loved The Mills Brothers’ version of “You Always Hurt the One You Love”. See Jonathan’s post about the film here. –

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Diverse Voices Quarterly

    – Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s “The Head” (p. 49) is now published in Diverse Voices Quarterly. You can download the phf of the issue here. – – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • A conversation heard

    A CONVERSATION HEARD in October 2007. YANG: He said something about lusting after. BURDETTE: Lusting over. Lusting after is more the nostalgia of bad sex. Nostalgia for bad sex. YANG: Do you think he knew? That I would hear? That…