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Voices from the Underground

Updated: 12 Feb 2009

Maybe it’s perfect that I’m in the underground reading ‘Voices from the Underground’. One underground...

The Malaysian Book of the Undead

Updated: 12 Feb 2009

This glossary of ghosts and hantu that haunt the collective imagination of Malaysians provides...

Shantaram

Updated: 12 Feb 2009

As Gregory David Roberts’ incredibly intimate and moving ode to Bombay – the epic ‘Shantaram’ – will tell you...

The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen

Updated: 12 Feb 2009

This collection of columns and short essays by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski captures a very quaint...

The Wasted Vigil

Updated: 12 Feb 2009

Set in Afghanistan, ‘The Wasted Vigil’ is Nadeem Aslam’s attempt at writing the country’s turbulent history in poetic prose...

The Devil’s Place

Updated: 21 Jan 2009

This isn’t a novel for the politically correct. The mother of Brian Gomez, the author, has described this work as...

31 Days, A Book of Poems

Updated: 21 Jan 2009

31 Days, A Book of Poems Eugene Low, is a publication of poems that proves interesting viewing...

The Secrets of the Chess Machine

Updated: 21 Jan 2009

What’s there not to love about the new work by Robert Löhr? I mean you have a religious dwarf chess...

Stirring up the dust

Updated: 20 Jan 2009

SH Lim deciphers the sociopolitical themes that feed Kee Thuan Chye’s body of works, including his latest book on the March 8 election...

Magical history tour

Updated: 30 Jul 2008

It was an episode tinged with intriguing plausibility, just like a scene from one of his novels. In the middle of February...