George Town, Malaysia | Photo Credit – Jan Venter | After some thinking, Ricepaper’s Gavin Hee decided to step away from his day job so that he could see more …
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Abi Sharma at the Yak and Yeti Yak and Yeti sits close to the corner of West 4th Avenue and Bayswater Street, its cosy interior offering a getaway from Vancouver. …
In the final part of William Tham’s ‘Java Quartet’-a series of four stories from Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya inspired by the books by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, he looks at the Ijen …
Cities are never static – they ripple and change with the seasons and years. On the streets that you roam the faces change: new ones appear and old ones eventually …
Literasian2016 is all about understanding the past. Canada’s 150th anniversary is fast approaching. The Asian Canadian Writers Workshop (ACWW) has just celebrated its 20th year that first began with a …
Burning eyes, open wide— I could be you too, despite the tears and eyes as dry as a seahorse on an apothecary table underneath the Chinatown sky. David Ly is …
And then I met him: worshipper of my body down on his knees, his tongue so kind between my thighs. Be my boy for one more night, his tongue insists …
William Tham continues his journey through Indonesia. Following his stop in Yogyakarta, he travels to Surabaya in East Java, en route to his final destination of the coastal volcanoes. The wall …
My mother left me a suitcase of sweaters she knitted in mohair, wool, acrylic in blends of burnished ochre bright carmine, sombre blue, sea green. I see her now in …
To see my mother slip away— like witnessing time being reassembled, the missing hands being reattached, the frozen hours and minutes retrieved from the crumbled heap, put back in their …