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18 Nov

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The recent publication of a new edition of Syed Husin Ali's classic Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Harmony and Conflict (SIRD) offers a timely moment to revisit the works of this most sagacious and humane of Malaysia's public intellectuals. The new book collects together and updates...

17 Nov

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The George Town Literary Festival is less than a fortnight away, so we'd better get a move on with our countdown. The curators have really pushed the boundaries with their invitations to speakers. Said El Haji was born in Morocco and moved to The Netherlands...

15 Nov

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Photograph by Jo Wallace (https://www.flickr.com/photos/38791739@N02/5597176691/in/52weeksofspnp/) There are some very powerful new books on the photography of the everyday. Sophie Howard and Stephen McLaren's Street Photography Now (Thames & Hudson) brings a very old genre bang up to date in what is now a truly global conversation....

14 Nov

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We've been pretty quiet here recently – so apologies are in order, especially for those of you who wait with bated breath for your daily dose of Gerakbudaya Bookshop news. But most of the team has been labouring day and night with the most monumental...

14 Nov

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We're REALLY behind with our monthly top of the pops, but here's what you've been waiting for. We have one runaway winner for last month: Kim Gooi's well-written collected writings of his times as a foreign correspondent – The Poet of Keng Tung Jail. Kim...

07 Nov

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  "This book is bad for my business reputation"! Our stock of Lukas Straumann's Money Logging: On the Trail of Asia's Timber Mafia arrived today. In case you hadn't heard, it's a devastating exposé that lifts the lid on timber corruption in Sarawak. Lukas has been...

06 Nov

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In an interview a few years ago, Marilynne Robinson described how once she’d finished writing a novel, she missed the characters: “I feel sort of bereaved”. That’s why she keeps returning to them. We first met her elderly, “silvery” preacher, John Ames, in Gilead (2004),...

04 Nov

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There are, I think you'd agree, lots of beautiful books: books that are beautiful because of the ideas they carry, the passion they evoke, the imagination they set free; and then there are books (sometimes the same ones) that are beautiful because they are fine to...