Fate ball
Damhuri Muhammad
A short story by Damhuri Muhammad
Category: Volume 9
Fists and demons
Marco Ferrarese
The Indonesian film industry is often underrated and overlooked, but Timo Tjahjanto is one of its directors to have attracted international attention for his work.
Art as catalogue
Jonathan Victor Baldoza
What unfolds in Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book is Shubigi Rao’s documentation of her encounters with texts in varying formats that, at some point in the past, confronted ‘banishment’.
Horror with a small ‘h’
Kristian-Marc James Paul
Set in Singapore, catskull is a “neo-noir thriller meets coming-of-age mystery” that explores the violence of the city and the many forms that it takes: physical, racial, institutional.
Past and future
Rhoda Kwan
For Hongkongers, the British Museum exhibition became a space for those living through the ongoing destruction of their home to make sense of their own lives.
Public noise
Mikko Toivanen
Noise can be a powerful tool of protest but also healing, its cathartic value directly correlated with its loudness.
Party membership
Thiện Việt
One does not need to understand communist ideology to become a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam. “All you need to do is to pass their test,” said one state employee.
Dictionary, revis(it)ed
Ben Rost
Tracing a Khmer-language dictionary’s trajectory across the past century of Cambodian history offers insights into the ways language has been called on to construct—and to challenge—notions of national identity and community.
Sea change
Darren Wan
What sets Rachel Heng’s historical fiction apart is how she moves beyond this understanding of History (with a capital H) by showing how grand events are mediated by everyday interactions.
Multitudes
Aditya Narayan Sharma
Saadat Hasan Manto knew that it was not for him to analyse the multitudes people contain, and that often spill out from us without warning.
Real lives
Joshua Yang
The story of Hong Kong has long been subject to the whims of outsiders’ imaginations. Almost nowhere in these narratives is Hong Kong a city for the seven million residents.
Factory voices
Anand P. Krishnan
Japanese Management, Indian Resistance is an important work in understanding the larger ecosystem of foreign capital, more specifically that from East Asia, in India’s political-economic-social terrain.
When grandmother’s gone
Jeric Olay
A poem by Jeric Olay.
The fate of a barrio farmer
Jeric Olay
A poem by Jeric Olay.