• London Assurance

    Last May, we went to the National Theatre for a revival of London Assurance, an early Victorian comedy by Dion Boucicault (1841). The play received consistently good notices and we can see why. Although far from a perfect play, the…

  • Marc Vincenz in Stirring

    p Marc Vincenz’s poem “Bicycle” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––

  • One memorable day

    David Nicholls opens his hypnotic One Day (2009) with the following quote from Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. How apt. That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine…

  • author talk: Xu Xi and Sybil Baker

    – Read a conversion between Xu Xi, author of Habit of a Foreign Sky and Sybil Baker, author of Talismans, at Daily s-Press. – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. ––

  • W.F. Lantry’s The Language of Birds

    – W.F. Lantry’s The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press) is now available for pre-order! Read more here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • Louie Crew and David Sutherland in Munyori Literary Journal

    – Read Louie Crew’s two poems “Eschatology” and “Euthanatopsis” and David Sutherland’s poems “The Mathematics of Love”, “Attachment”, “Laundromat Dreams” and “Plastic Hammers” in the January/February 2011 issue of Munyori Literary Journal. – Three poems by Louie Crew were published…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Hunchback Rat of the Red Star Hotel”, first published in Cha, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • What is the closest thing one can do to imitate a bird wing?

    Kyoko Mori answers in One Bird (1995): I raise my left arm and begin to wave as the birds disappear over the neighbor’s houses, and my eyes ache from staring into the sky. I know they will be back among the…

  • “Reading 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

    . The title of Allan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty (2004) is a reference to William Hogarth’s The Analysis of Beauty (1801): . the wavering line, which is a line more productive of beauty […], as in flowers, and other…

    “Reading 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

  • Ouyang Yu wins NSW Premier’s Literary Award

    Congratulations to Cha contributor Ouyang Yu, whose book The English Class is a 2011 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award winner ($20,000). Ouyang’s poem “Bad English” was published in Issue # 4 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.…