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Tapai: Travels & Guilty Pleasures of a Fermented Malaysian

Updated: 16 Dec 2010

The preference is to encounter Hishammudin’s words in print.

Better read than dead

Updated: 25 Nov 2010

SH Lim pokes around the book industry to find out and to learn where reading fiction fits into our culture.

Found in Malaysia

Updated: 24 Nov 2010

We’ve always fitted into the hackneyed idea of ‘living harmoniously under one roof’ but the current derision in Malaysia ...

Tin Man

Updated: 24 Nov 2010

We need a ‘Tin Man’. In a social climate occasioned by a Johore principal’s calling her non-Malay students ‘penumpang’ ...

Stories

Updated: 24 Nov 2010

Neil Gaiman’s introduction to this anthology of short stories tells readers what to expect: no particular genre, no particular topic, just fiction.

Alice I Have Been

Updated: 18 Oct 2010

‘Alice I Have Been’ is built on a promising premise; it piggybacks on both the beloved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and also...

Without Anchovies

Updated: 18 Oct 2010

I recently met a writer who informed of her struggle deciding whether to include a particular short story in a collection for publication or...

Chinese Stories

Updated: 23 Sep 2010

He’s been in the country a year, quietly living and writing among us. SH Lim pays writer David Wong a visit....

Men From The Boys

Updated: 23 Sep 2010

This is latest in the Harry Silver series which started with the bestseller ‘Man and Boy’...

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

Updated: 23 Sep 2010

It’s apparent, even after the first few pages, that Pasulka is much indebted by way of inspiration and style to Louis de Bernieres....

 
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