“You’ve got to line up there.” The airport attendant pointed at a flock of people waiting to check in. We were the late bunch, the timid rebels who didn’t arrive …
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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 …
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 …
This is how it may start to end, round of applause for the chief exec to exit, quaintly hugging in a photo op her family, handshake, flowers. There is no …
Don’t call them dogs. Protest is merely a sound for ears that must stay deaf for those who feed above. They are more bothersome, just as you are bothersome as …
The graduation ceremony had to end early, the chancellor left with guards. Students held signs in black gowns, saying, “You can’t kill us all.” How do we live up to …
Or so the collective chant goes, but no, ideas are not bulletproof, they can be usefully forgotten. What did you do a month ago? Truth is, I want you to …
I am the only boy in the neighbourhood to have a wooden duckie. This yellow duckie quacks and rolls when I pull it along on a long string. Boys and …
Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, China/France 2018) Since his mid-career lane switch in 2013, Jia Zhangke has ditched the sluggish arthouse gloom that made him a brand in favour of …
The laundry draped above me. The wires crossed the gap between one building and the next in the starless night. Air conditioning units sat fuming on sills, and my arms …
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