Common Comic Star
Please not that an audio reading of the poem is available below the text. As hours flop, And hours top, And wiggle side to side, I laugh my self, Guffaw my way, Chuckle stuff I have tried: I feel it...
Category: Arts & Literature
The Hong Kong Sinfonietta, a growing presence
3 May 2008 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18 The Sinfonietta, established in 1990, offered concertgoers the rare chance to enjoy...
Interview with author Hugh Miles
This is an interview with Hugh Miles, author of Playing Cards In Cairo. We wish to thank everyone who made this interview possible. Jonathan Mok: What inspired you to write the book? Hugh Miles:...
Playing Cards in Cairo: A Review
This is a review of Playing Cards in Cairo by Hugh Miles. Abacus. 2008. Hugh Miles, the son of a British diplomat, has a freewheeling approach to life that, by proxy, helps readers gain a better...
Two Thoughts in the Prado Museum, Madrid
I. Guards, sentries, guides, they stalk the halls like silent wraiths clad in their dead blue blazers and knee length skirts. To speak to them is to encounter monotony made woman: instructions...
The Revenge: The Fellow Undead
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's tale can be found here. That morning, I asked Luke what our plan was. "I know people who will give us a ship for free," he answered mysteriously as we...
Yoni is the wrong damn word: marginalization and exoticism
Why, oh, why does it have to be Yoni Ki Baat? Why? I'm South Asian, right? I'm solid South Asian. So why does it make my blood boil that South Asians are doing an adaptation of the Vagina Monologues...
The Revenge: The Bane of Immortality
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's pirate saga can be found here. While I thought about my brother and contemplated my undead state, Luke sat nearby, eyes closed. “I am ready to leave." I...
The Revenge: The Drowned
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's pirate saga can be found here. Floating in the sea I looked around in search for the other members of my doomed crew. I couldn’t see through the sheet...
A warning to Writers: post-colonialism as opium
Writers, when they come to teach you the humanities, run away. The divorce of dignity and method afflicts and impairs every system of thought. Law, for example, ceases to serve the ends of providing...