In the summer, our Parisian half-cousin hosted a lunch at his condominium. I didn’t go. Not because I couldn’t, but because he’d added me to the group chat hours …
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Non-Fiction
I have a running list: I love the planet too much, I want to ride a moped instead, I think cars are ugly, I know I’m going to hit someone, …
She is small and dark, a brown egg among a dozen white ones. At home she eats fried eggs with rice, while the white chicks eat theirs with toast and …
The first words I ever spoke were in Toisan, Cantonese; Ge Ge. Brother. I was calling for my big brother Jin. Two years later, my baby sister was born. Mei …
When her grandfather passed away, poet and essayist Mormei Zanke unconventionally honoured his memory – by writing about chop suey. This stir-fried meal of chopped vegetables and meat, all doused …
She wasn’t brought up on picture books the way her own children were. Even though illustrated storybooks existed back in the early 1970s – for example The Snowy Day by …
Authors Rachel Phan (Restaurant Kid, a memoir) and Su Chang (The Immortal Woman, a novel) recently interviewed each other about their new releases. Rachel was three years old when her …
I never went to the funeral of the first body I saw.
Seven kilometres from China’s Great Wall, my grandpa and I stood under the threatening alabaster
The bold, green eyes staring at me through the screen door belonged to our neighbour, Joyce. “Too bad about your movin’ van bein’ late. Here’s some dishes and pots yus …
Every space has its own logic of organization. Mine was built from piles—curated collections that made perfect sense to me, painstakingly laid out on my bedroom floor. Dirty clothing, sorted …