100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong, Canada 2025) Vancouverite Kunsang Kyirong sets her intriguing debut feature in a sterile apartment complex in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, and through the eyes of a young Tibetan …
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What is described today as Japan’s most recognized traditional performing art was, of course, just a form of popular culture for the masses during the 17th and 18th centuries in …
The Japanese too have the idiom of killing two birds with one stone, and Japanese filmmaker Hikari achieves this knockout feat nicely with her crowd-pleasing second feature. After a world …
In 1987, my parents bought a one bedroom apartment in Shekou. It was Chinese for snake tongue because there was a fork in the road that divided the village from …
We are now accepting submissions centred around the theme of impossibility. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the Queen upbraids Alice for not practicing a belief in the impossible. …
You nod your head through the bitter taste of dread that threatens to stain the smile you perfected on the kitchen tile. You do as you’re told: be kind, be …
I trace my grandfather’s hands across the atlas he never owned, each river a scar, each ridge a fist. He speaks in gestures I barely know: the curl of a …
steam, salt, pink crabs on their backs grandpa sucks the spit through his teeth splits the belly open drinks from the shell, announces this delicacy loud enough to reach the …
Ricepaper’s Executive Editor and multi-genre writer, Allan Cho, interviews PP Wong, author of the new novel, Slice the Water. A dystopian thriller, a speculative fiction, and a coming-of-age story, Slice …
In our latest TalkRice podcast, contributor Gavin Hee sits down with Ricepaper Literary Editor, Jinwoo Park, to scratch the surface of just some of the many layers to his novel, …