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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jeet Thayil (author), The Elsewhereans: A Documentary Novel, Fourth Estate, 2025. 219 pgs. With time and the evolution of human civilisation, the significance of stories has become increasingly apparent.…
![[REVIEW] โWhen Time Flies With Us, We Live Many Lives: Jeet Thayilโs ๐โ๐ ๐ธ๐๐ ๐๐คโ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ by Kabir Deb](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jeet-thayils-the-elsewhereans-1.jpg?w=1002)
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๐ย RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ย RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kamila Kuc, Laima Leyton, Dara Waldron,ย Ecka Mordecai, and Jeremy Fernando (contributors), If loss were a currency: on Kamila Kucยดs I Was There. Delere Press, 2025. 114 pgs. According to…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โWhereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Cannot Stay SilentโOn ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ: ๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ข๐’๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐ ๐โ๐๐๐” by Anders Kรธlle](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/kamila-kuc-laima-leyton-dara-waldron-ecka-mordecai-jeremy-fernando.jpg?w=971)
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[ESSAY] โPseudo-Resistance and Ethical Beauty: A Critique of South Korean and Japanese Cinematic Aestheticsโ by Zheng Wang In the narrative context of East Asian visual media, both South Korean and Japanese films and television series excel at exposing the darker…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Hiroko Oyamada. Hiroko Oyamada (author), David Boyd (translator), The Hole, New Directions Publishing, 2020. 112 pgs. As a…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โUnanswered Questions of Balance: Hiroko Oyamadaโs ๐โ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐โ by Tyran Grillo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hiroko-oyamada_the-hole.jpg?w=778)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Niloufar-Lily Soltani, Zulaikha, Inanna Publications, 2023. 332 pgs. If there is a single word that can encapsulate the novel Zulaikha, it is beautyโa beauty that transcends the physical…
![[REVIEW] โBeauty and Strength in Niloufar-Lily Soltaniโs ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐โ๐โ by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/in-niloufar-lily-soltanis-zulaikha.jpg?w=1000)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dฦฐฦกng Hฦฐแปng (author), Quan Manh Ha and Charles Waugh (translators), No Man River, Penguin Random House SEA, 2025. 248 pgs. The recent publication of the English edition of Dฦฐฦกng…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โNo Human Being is Spared from Its Crimson Claws: Dฦฐฦกng Hฦฐแปngโs ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites suggestions of titlesโbooks, films, or other cultural productionsโfor review or feature in the journal during the second half of the year and into 2026. Please send short pitches (no more than 150 words) that…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] โBetween Rupture and Continuity: Charting Anachronistic Literary Modernity in Satoru Hashimotoโs Afterlives of Lettersโ by Charlie Ng Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Afterlives. Satoru Hashimoto, Afterlives…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Meena Kandasamy, Exquisite Cadavers, Simon & Schuster India, 2025. 112 pgs. Borrowed from the French term cadavre exquisโa technique devised by the Surrealists to produce collective, chance-based creationsโthe title…
![[REVIEW] โFragments Toward a Whole: Meena Kandasamyโs ๐ธ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ โ by Ananya Singh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/meena-kandasamy.jpg?w=568)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Vigil. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong, Brixton Ink, 2025. 176 pgs. The ability to document pivotal historical events with scholarly…
![[REVIEW] โMemory, Resistance, and Repression: The Enduring Relevance of Jeffrey Wasserstromโs ๐๐๐๐๐โ by David R. Stroupย](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vigil.jpg?w=977)
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