Three artistic works, recently showcased in Kuala Lumpur and beyond, suggest why it matters that we think about the history of the Malayan Emergency in concert with the contemporary COVID-19 and climate emergencies
On the difficulties of continuing being a translator, and why we persist
On translators’ labor and invisibility
The air opened and she was gone
You want more than the count of their lives lost
But the children are frolicking inside the palace of their mother’s empty stomach. They can’t say whether it’s day or night.
‘We do not want to hover like a line of fog, a river’s shadow, but slower: shadows in conversation, gentle only when we don’t bother expecting to be heard.’
Chinese American writer H.T. Tsiang’s final novel is a Marxist, feminist, pro-immigrant satire of the American Dream. It was published 80 years ago.
Sustainable eating can often feel like the privilege of a well-heeled elite, but how do the appetites and labor of New York City’s immigrant communities fit into the picture?
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
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