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Tapai: Travels & Guilty Pleasures of a Fermented Malaysian
The preference is to encounter Hishammudin’s words in print.
Better read than dead
SH Lim pokes around the book industry to find out and to learn where reading fiction fits into our culture.
Found in Malaysia
We’ve always fitted into the hackneyed idea of ‘living harmoniously under one roof’ but the current derision in Malaysia ...
Tin Man
We need a ‘Tin Man’. In a social climate occasioned by a Johore principal’s calling her non-Malay students ‘penumpang’ ...
Stories
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
‘Alice I Have Been’ is built on a promising premise; it piggybacks on both the beloved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and also...
Without Anchovies
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
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
This is latest in the Harry Silver series which started with the bestseller ‘Man and Boy’...
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
It’s apparent, even after the first few pages, that Pasulka is much indebted by way of inspiration and style to Louis de Bernieres....







