Postscripts from a City Burning By Sam Cheuk Palimpsest Press, Windsor, Ontario ISBN 978-1-989287-81-1 Reviewed by Kate Rogers As authoritarianism spreads with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine it would be too …
A constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in the Asia Pacific region. Slavery is not a historical issue – it’s happening …
Whenever I think of nature, especially flora, I am reminded of my childhood days when my parents used to take me and my siblings once a year to Kodaikanal, a …
A fictionalized version of Marco Polo engages in conversation with his master, the emperor Kublai Khan, about how he “will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city” from the …
The words were waiting to be needed. They gush out of me, and I’m left wondering if I believe in a god, or three million of them, after all. For …
SETTING Beijing, China. TIME 2018 CHARACTERS DON (35) Male. A hip-hop-loving Chinese American from Texas, who now teaches at an international school. LC (35) Male. A closeted Chinese Mainlander who …
If I cup my hands just right, I can hold every fading memory of being a toddler in the Philippines. I don’t remember which store my mother and I meandered …
Obaachan arrives in Canada for the first time on a sparkling August day, during the last two weeks of summer vacation. Inside the airport, the air-conditioning sends goosebumps up my …
Pik-Sheun Fung makes her novel debut with Ghost Forest, delivering an experimental writing stroke with artistic mastery. The work comes right at a time when we need it most. With …
Hong Kong for my grandparents arriving as a ship is prone to do, in and out of Victoria Harbour, they stayed: he learning to count the freight, longhand neat in …