Category: Marsha McDonald
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[INCIDENTAL] “Bear, Boar, Monkey, Mouse, and Cat” by Marsha McDonald Bear Β© Dima Solomin and Marsha McDonald I am returning this year to Japan for a month mid-November, staying near Osaka, and visiting friends, doing my creative work. I will…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Interrogative Reflections: Nine Views of Reading Du Fu” by Marsha McDonald Xiaofei Tian (editor). Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 200 pgs. The idea for Reading…
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ππππππ π·π’ πΉπ’” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/xiaofei-tian-editor-reading-du-fu-nine-views-1.jpg?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Transcendence and RedemptionβUmi Ishiharaβs Gravity and Radiance” by Marsha McDonald Umi Ishihara (director). Gravity and Radiance, 2021. 30 min. Images featured in this piece courtesy of the director. Gravity…
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πππππππ” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/gravity-and-radiance-3.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Tales of Japanese monsters, ghosts, and spirits: Matthew Meyer’s The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons” by Marsha McDonald Matthew Meyer (author and illustrator), The Night Parade of One Hundred…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βA Dreamlike Book: Natsume SΕsekiβs Ten Nights Dreaming and The Catβs Graveβ by Marsha McDonald ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Natsume SΕseki. Natsume SΕseki (author), Matt Treyvaud (translator), Ten Nights Dreaming…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βA Series of Cyanotypes: Xi Xiβs Mourning a Breastβ by Marsha McDonald ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaonΒ Mourning a Breast. Xi Xi (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Mourning a Breast, New York Review…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “A Poem Epic in Length, Powerfully Cautionary: Leanne Dunic’s Wet” by Marsha McDonald Leanne Dunic, Wet, Talonbooks, April 2024. 133 pgs. Interwoven throughout Wet, Leanne Dunicβs most recent book named…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The People in These Stories Have Found a SoulmateβOn Cats: An Anthology” by Marsha McDonald On Cats: An Anthology, introduction by Margaret Atwood and photographs by Elliot Ross, Notting Hill…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βExtraordinarily ordinary?: Hiromi Kawakamiβs People from My Neighbourhoodβ by Marsha McDonald ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ People from My Neighbourhood. Hiromi Kawakami (author), Ted Goossen (translator), People from My Neighbourhood, Granta Books,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βOne Senses a Quiet Revolution: Eddie Tayβs Hong Kong as Creative Practiceβ by Marsha McDonald Eddie Tay, Hong Kong as Creative Practice, Palgrave, 2022. 110 pgs. The Palgrave Macmillan series…
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{Written by Marsha McDonald , this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Eddie Tay, Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices, Delere Press, 2018. 168 pgs. A star…
![[REVIEW] “Intercepting Identity: Eddie Tay’s π΄ππ¦π‘βπππ πππ’ πΆππ πΊππ‘ π΄π€ππ¦ πππ‘β” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/anything-you-can-get-away-with-1.jpg?w=907)
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{Written by Marsha McDonald, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leanne Dunic, To Love the Coming End, Chin Music Press, 2017. 98 pgs. Leanne Dunic’s first novel, To…
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