• Stephen Hawking mentions the Chinese tale of the ten suns

    In The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life (2010), co-written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty (c. 2205-c.1782 BC) when our cosmic environment suddenly changed. Ten suns appeared in…

  • The Pipettes "Santa’s On His Way"

    Download The Pipettes’s “Santa’s On His Way”! Absolutely free. ––

  • "Suppose someone submitted all your poems for you?"

    I came across this interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Nic Sebastian’s blog Very Like A Whale and was intrigued. In July, Kathleen submitted some poems to us on behalf of her husband, W.F. Lantry. Royston, J and I selected “Rainbow Bridge”…

  • Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs reviewed

    Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs is reviewed in Expatriate Lifestyle (February 2010). Go to Robert’s blog and click the image to enlarge and read the review.––Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––

  • The god of his own pathetic little world

    This post was originally written on 9th September, 2009. Foyles Bookstore, London Tonight we saw John Banville (who is also Benjamin Black) at a free author’s talk organised by the Foyles Bookstore. In the event, Banville discussed his latest novel,…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong in The Scrambler

    Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s sequence of poems “-ING: Smoking, Haunting, Prewriting” is now published in Issue #43 (November/December 2010) of The Scrambler. – – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • W.F. Lantry wins the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize

    Congratulations to W.F. Lantry, who won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize with his poem “Kiste”. From W.F.’s website: (Jerusalem, Israel) – W.F. Lantry of Washington, DC won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize sponsored by the Lindberg…

  • The Hurt Locker

    I was gripped from the opening seconds of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker about an elite Army bomb squad whose main job is to defuse roadside bombs. The film uses suspense masterfully to suggest the tension and fear of the…

  • Lantern Review reviews Eddie Tay’s The Mental Life of Cities

    – Henry W. Leung, reviewer for Lantern Review, has written a review of Eddie Tay’s latest collection of poetry The Mental Life of Cities. You can read the review here. Henry also wrote a review of the current edition of…

  • Mrs. Wix and Mademoiselle Leclair

    “It was on account of these things that mamma got her for such low pay, really for nothing: so much, one day when Mrs. Wix had accompanied her into the drawing-room and left her, the child heard one of the…