• 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…

  • Dave Bonta and Luisa A. Igloria collaborate

    A beautiful facebook collaboration between Dave and Luisa: ‘Dawn: in absolute silence, / a pileated woodpecker … ‘ Dave Bonta’s photography was published in issue #7 of Cha. Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. –

  • Xu Xi and the Largehearted boy

    –Xu Xi creates a music playlist that relates to her latest book, Habit of a Foreign Sky, a finalist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. Visit the largehearted boy website to learn more.  –– Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published…

  • Reading London Review of Books (2008 issues — Part III)

    “You Have Never Written Better” by Benjamin Markovits |As Byron himself remarked, you couldn’t expect any verse to be all good.| “Some Sort of a Solution” by Charles Simic |he needed his small circle of friends, for they were his…

  • London fox

    Today, my friend sent me a smiley fox:

  • Reading London Review of Books (2008 issues — Part II)

    “You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel” by Mark Greif |‘Think of me as a boy,’ the woman begs.| “Hysterical Vigour” by Frank Kermode  |The title of this novel comes from the Chinese national anthem: Arise, ye who refuse…