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{𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧} Call for Poems: En Route
“… In this way, too, poems are en route; they are headed toward. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality.” —Paul Celan, tr. Rosemarie...
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{𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓} CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: First Impressions, Xi Xi—Can We Say,...
📁 First Impressionsclick for information 📁 XI XI—Can We Sayclick for information 📁 Write to Powerclick for information 📁 Auditory Cortexclick for information 📁 Pitches You are welcome to pitch ideas...
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[REVIEW] “A Symphony of Words and Sound—Haruki Murakami’s 𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Absolutely on Music. Haruki Murakami (author), Jay Rubin (translator), Absolutely on...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Dining with the Departed: Yuta Takahashi’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑘𝑜...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yuta Takahashi (author), Cat Anderson (translator), The Chibineko Kitchen, John Murray, 2024. 192 pgs. The Japanese iyashikei—or...
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[REVIEW] “In the Wake of Hong Kong Dreaming: Sasha Chuk’s 𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛”...
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[REVIEW] “A Senseless Menagerie: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦” by Tyran Grillo
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Susan Barker’s 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙: A Globetrotting Horror with an...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Susan Barker, Old Soul, Penguin, 2025. 352 pgs. In 2014, Susan Barker published The Incarnations, which The Independent described...
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[REVIEW] “Interrogative Reflections: Nine Views of Reading Du Fu” by Marsha...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Xiaofei Tian (editor), Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 200 pgs. The idea for Reading Du Fu: Nine Views...
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[REVIEW] “A Shifting, Unstable World: Can Xue’s 𝐼 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑠” by...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Can Xue (author), Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (translators), I Live in the Slums, Yale University Press, 2020. 344 pgs. Can Xue’s...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “The Virtue of Melancholy: Reading Natsume Sōseki’s 𝐾𝑜𝑘𝑜𝑟𝑜” by...
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[EXCLUSIVE] Three Poems by Russell Leong
Russell Leong on these poems: Like apparitions or long-lost friends, these three unpublished poems—written more than twenty years ago in New London, Connecticut; Cuse, France; and Hong Kong,...
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[REVIEW] “Dying for a Living: Bong Joon-ho’s 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑦 17 and the Horror of...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bong Joon-ho (director), Mickey 17, 2025. 137 min. Header image © bartos. Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 is at once an existential...
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[REVIEW] “Uncovering the Truths of the Toleration-Regulation Regime—Park...
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[REVIEW] “The Making of An Unlikely Maritime Superpower—Jack Weatherford’s...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jack Weatherford, Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. 368 pgs. Emperor of the...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Face Of Integrity In Naomi Kawase’s 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠” by...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, 2020. 140 min. Are human faces a resource? Are they a commodity? Can they be picked like grapes and...
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