Malaysia

  • Dipika Mukherjee leans over a railing, smiling, as she looks at the camera

    Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan

    July 23, 2019 Dipika Mukherjee
    A writer travels from Chicago to a residency in rural Malaysia, where part of her novel-in-progress is set. While encountering the many living creatures who surround her and making progress on he…
  • A digital altered photograph of Kuala Lumpur shrouded in fog or smog with greys and browns mixed into the haze

    Malaysian English Writing Today

    April 16, 2019 Dipika Mukherjee
    Kuala Lumpur / Photo by Ishan @seefromthesky Although the world has opened up for Malaysian glocal writers in the past fifteen years, they still face the demon of self-censorship. Dipika…
  • Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009.

    Asian Traumatic Poetics (part 1)

    February 10, 2016 Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
    Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in po…