• Todd Swift is featured on etcetera

    Three poems by Todd Swift, “Essay Number One”, ” “These Women, Dreams” ” and “On the Sublime” are now featured on the etcetera website. Read them here. – – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. –…

  • Moon

    Moon is a great film. It reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Solaris (1972) and even Blade Runner (1982). The film centres on Sam Bell (played marvellously by Sam Rockwell), a miner living alone in a space station…

  • post-80s in the eyes of post-80s: a photography exhibition

    80 後眼中的80 後 攝影展 post-80s in the eyes of post-80s: a photography exhibition Click image to enlarge.More information here. [Facebook event page] 開幕日期 Opening ：2010 / 12 / 04 （ 星期六Sat ） 2:00p.m. 展覽日期 Exhibition Period ：2010 / 12 /…

  • Lyn Lifshin in Melusine

    – Lyn Lifshin’s two poems “Early, Before the Crows” and “October, Early” are now published in the latest issue of Melusine. Read them here. – – Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha – –

  • Introducing Libertine Magazine

    Libertine Magazine is a new and exciting publication created/managed/run by under 25s. Its Managing Director is Cha contributor Ceci Mourkogiannis. The magazine contains a wide range of sections including “Art”, “Aural Delights”, “Education”, “Fashion”, “Opinion”, “Photography”, “Realpolitik”, “Interviews” and a vibrant…

  • Once

    Read Jonathan‘s review here. –

  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

      by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho(This post was originally written on 14 February 2010.) As many of you know, I am currently on a blog break. However, after seeing the National Theatre’s revival (actually, the return of the revival) of Every…

  • Someone’s car

    This afternoon, my friend sent me this — a view from the window:

  • Introducing Asymptote

    I am very excited to have the opportunity to introduce Asymptote to Cha readers. Asymptote is a new journal dedicated to literary translation and is run by a team of talented people from different parts of the world — Singapore, Taiwan, Germany,…

  • 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑑

    In Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005), Penelope,1 Odysseus’s oh-so-loyal and virtuous wife, is dead. Hell is her current domicile. That does not stop her from telling the readers, who live in the modern age…