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To get a taste of what's in ALR36, start with our selection of free-to-view articles on the ALR36 Contents page. A good place to begin is From the EditorsZen Hae's Introduction places this issue's focus in the context of contemporary Indonesian writing and the rest of the issue provides a selection of fiction from some of the country's most interesting writers. You can read them all here on the Web site, and through our online eBook reader in Preview.
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More jewels from the archive:
No Country for Old Women - Sandip Roy - ALR16, Summer 2010
 
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To get a taste of what's in ALR35, expand this link to see our selection of free-to-view articles on the ALR34 Contents page. A good place to begin is From the Editors

Then explore our interview with Anuradha Roy, who has just been announced winner of the 2018 TATA Book of the Year Award for Fiction

There's lots of fiction, and we feature stories set in India, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, the US and North Korea. Read Zach Macdonald's A Happy Ending - a harrowing counterpoint to cheerful media reports about the Korean peninsula. Finally, sample some of the issue's poetry with Kunwar Narain and Katherine Wu - and there's more in Preview.

 
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To get a taste of what's in ALR34, start with our selection of free-to-view articles on the ALR34 contents page A good place to begin is From the Editors.

Much of this issue puts a spotlight on Myanmar (Burma), and we include an interview with Lucas Stewart, joint editor with Alfred Birnbaum of Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds, from which we include four stories. We also feature two stories from Korean rising star Kim Ae-ran, whose writing is the focus for our forthcoming essay competition in partnership with the Literature Translation Institiute of Korea. Finally, sample some of the issue's poetry with John Mateer and Ellen Zhangand there's more in Preview.

Subscribers can read the whole issue here on the website, through our online reader or by downloading eBooks from their accounts.  

 
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To get a taste of what's in ALR33, start with the selection of free-to-view articles on our ALR33 contents page. A good place to begin is From the Editors.

Much of this issue celebrates the work of translators, and we include some of the entries and finalists from our collaboration with English PENOne of these is Shion Miura's The Handymen of Mahoro, translated by Asuka Minamoto. Sample some of the issue's poetry with Tishani Doshi and Norman Erikson Pasaribu, and enjoy our interview with Margrét Helgadóttir, editor of Asian Monsters, from which we include two stories.

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Today, the 28th December 2010, is Liu Xiaobo's birthday and there seems to be no prospect either of his release or of an end to the indefinite house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia, who remains isolated without charge.

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For a taste of what's in ALR32, read our selection of free-to-view articles. A good place to start is From the Editors

Then read Jessica Faleiro's Arrival: Notes from a Migrant Goan. Sample some of the issue's poetry with Amlanjyoti Goswami and Anuradha Gupta and enjoy the extraordinary photography of Coventry's nonagenarian Masterjiwho also provided our front and back covers. Non-subscribers can read  a couple of free-to-view paragraphs for each piece in the issue, followed by a link to our subscription page. There's a range of fiction and non-fiction, and we include an exclusive interview with Madeleine Thien, winner of Canada's Scotiabank Giller and Governor General's prizes, and shortlisted for the 2016 Booker. More....

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Appropriate My Ass! - Michael Vatikiotis
 
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For an idea of what's in this issue, click here to read our free-to-view articles and From the EditorsThen scroll down to the contents list below, where we feature an extract from Sebastian Sim's Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao! There's a sample of ALR31's poetry in John Thieme's mischievous Chinese Checkers. We also offer two terrific interviews, where Xu Xi searches for Gordon Ashberry, her missing protagonist, while Krys Lee tells us about her new novel, set in the borderlands of North Korea and China.

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In April 2016, we released our 'K-Lit' issue, dedicated to an emerging generation of writers focused on modern Korean life as faced by its younger people. What they have to say about the society's contradictions - its optimism and despair, nostalgia and innovation, stark reality and unbridled fantasies - sheds a spotlight on the country from an angle rarely seen by non-Koreans. 

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For a taste of what's in the Autumn 2015 issue of the Asia Literary Review, enter the world of China's 'doomsday rock' with Jemimah Steinfeld and the Bedstars, join RK Biswas and the Tiger Under Pipal Tree, and discover the poetry of Jee Leong Koh and Saleem Peeradina.

There's much more on Issue 29 in our Editorial.

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Single copies are also available on our website in print and eBook editions, and coming soon to bookshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and elsewhere. Read on...

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What It's Like - Theophilus Kwek
Contrast - Tammy Ho
Beating Dickheads - Miguel Syjuco
 
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4 October 2014
 
The past week has seen a turning point in the shaping of Hong Kong's identity and its relationship to the rest of China.

Here are some of the articles we've published about it.

 

THEY by Sreedhevi Iyer
A Coming of Age in Hong Kong by Martin Alexander
Hong Kong's Grinch by Phillip Kim
Glory, Repentance by Tammy Ho
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The University of Leiden, the Netherlands' 'Bastion of Liberty', hosts a conference led by elite North Korean exiles speaking publicly for the first time about what really happens behind the scenes in what outsiders have hitherto perceived as an inscrutable dictatorship.

Inscrutable? Not any more. Jang Jin-sung, author of Dear Leader and once poet laureate of the dead dictator Kim Jong Il, joins fellow experts in the small community of high-level North Korean exiles to expose the inner workings of the DPRK regime.

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Justin Hill remembers the Tiananmen massacre and reflects on how memories of it have been suppressed on the mainland.

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Jane Camens, a founder of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and the inspiration behind the Asia Pacific Writers' and Translators' Association, introduces the third in an influential series of annual conferences. This year's event in Singapore follows two hugely successful events in Bangkok.


One of Asia’s best platforms for promoting new work and spring-boarding to other international events is the annual gathering of the ever-expanding Asia Pacific Writers' and Translators' Association (AP Writers).

 

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In Issue 25, we highlighted the plight of Paco Larrañaga, still in prison after a deeply flawed trial and sentence in the Philippines. Grammy-nominated musician Bob Regan is on video to explain why he was moved to write a song dedicated to Paco and to the need for his release. There's also a petition for Paco, and the Give Up Tomorrow website offers ways to help the Philippines recover from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. Re-read Luis Francia's moving article for the ALR on Give Up Tomorrow, the award-winning documentary about Paco Larrañaga.