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Die Tomorrow – A Film from Thailand: Review no 149
Mawkish film from Thailand
Review no 141: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)
FAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA First published in 2007, Tahmima Anam’s intimate civil war tale A Golden Age won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The edition I read was published in 2012 as part of the Canongate ‘the Canons‘ list, which …
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Review no 140: The enormity of the everyday – the art of sculptor Ron Mueck (Australia)
Ron Mueck’s perception-challenging, hyper-realistic sculpture: anything but life-size
Review no 130: The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha (Indonesia)
a choose your own adventure book from Indonesia
Review no 120: Flames by Robbie Arnott (Australia)
An astoundingly original, technically ambitious, magical realist novel set in a sort of alternative Tasmania
Review no 103: stories by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), and My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn (New Zealand)
Exceptional, highly influential writing from New Zealand
Review no 99: Ai WeiWei (China) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
A look at the work of contemporary Chinese conceptual artist Ai WeiWei
Review no 92: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnam)
Poetic auto fiction from Ocean Vuong
Review no 87: Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana (Thailand)
An intriguing collection of short stories from one of Thailiand’s pre-eminent writers
