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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on A Woman Burnt. Imayam (author), GJV Prasad (translator), A Woman Burnt, Simon and Schuster India, 2023. 336 pgs. “Every woman adores a Fascist, / The…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Portrait of a Burning Woman: Imayam’s 𝐴 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑡” by Swagatika Rath](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/a-woman-burnt-1.jpg?w=952)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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] “When Time Flies With Us, We Live Many Lives: Jeet Thayil’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠” by Kabir Deb](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jeet-thayils-the-elsewhereans-1.jpg?w=1002)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kamila Kuc, Laima Leyton, Dara Waldron, Ecka Mordecai, and Jeremy Fernando (contributors), If loss were a currency: on Kamila Kuc´s I Was There. Delere Press, 2025. 114 pgs. According to…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Cannot Stay Silent—On 𝐼𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦: 𝑜𝑛 𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝐾𝑢𝑐’𝑠 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒” by Anders Kølle](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] “Pseudo-Resistance and Ethical Beauty: A Critique of South Korean and Japanese Cinematic Aesthetics” 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…
![[ESSAY] “Pseudo-Resistance and Ethical Beauty: A Critique of South Korean and Japanese Cinematic Aesthetics” by Zheng Wang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/8331752405576_.pic_.png?w=610)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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] “Unanswered Questions of Balance: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑒” by Tyran Grillo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hiroko-oyamada_the-hole.jpg?w=778)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN 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 beauty—a beauty that transcends the physical…
![[REVIEW] “Beauty and Strength in Niloufar-Lily Soltani’s 𝑍𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑘ℎ𝑎” by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/in-niloufar-lily-soltanis-zulaikha.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dương Hướng (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 Dương…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “No Human Being is Spared from Its Crimson Claws: Dương Hướng’s 𝑁𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟” by Rebecca Maine](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/no-man-river-duong-huong-1.jpg?w=938)
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites suggestions of titles—books, films, or other cultural productions—for 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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Between Rupture and Continuity: Charting Anachronistic Literary Modernity in Satoru Hashimoto’s Afterlives of Letters” by Charlie Ng Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Afterlives. Satoru Hashimoto, Afterlives…
![[REVIEW] “Between Rupture and Continuity: Charting Anachronistic Literary Modernity in Satoru Hashimoto’s 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Charlie Ng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/afterlives-of-letters-the-transnational-origins-of-modern-literature-in-china-japan-and-korea.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Meena Kandasamy, Exquisite Cadavers, Simon & Schuster India, 2025. 112 pgs. Borrowed from the French term cadavre exquis—a technique devised by the Surrealists to produce collective, chance-based creations—the title…
![[REVIEW] “Fragments Toward a Whole: Meena Kandasamy’s 𝐸𝑥𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Ananya Singh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/meena-kandasamy.jpg?w=568)
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