The waiting is over, the bookstall is set up (and looking fine) and the writers are in town. And after the welcome from the George Town Literary Festival curator, Umapagan Ampikaipakan, there was a quite brilliant keynote address from Eddin Khoo – invoking the spirits...
Just a day to go before the George Town Literary Festival's official opening at The Whiteaways Arcade tomorrow (Friday) at 5.30pm. It was a pleasure to welcome Hans Kemp to the bookshop today. He is an award-winning photographer who's been based in Asia for more...
The George Town Literary Festival at The Whiteaways Arcade is almost upon us and the writers are circling town. What's to say about the boundless talents Il Maestro, otherwise known as Marco Ferrarese? The Penang-based Renaissance man is a freelance travel and culture writer, anthropologist,...
For more than thirty years James C. Scott has been a towering and radical analyst of Malaysia, of Southeast Asia and of agrarian societies around the world. His work should speak to us loudly today for his abiding concern has been how subaltern groups resist...
The excitement is building for this weekend's George Town Literary Festival, with the launch of two more books from the ever-innovative Fixi stable. The book launch of Perjalanan (Journey) and Here Be Nightmares takes place on Sunday 30 November at 6.00pm – venue: The Twelve...
The George Town Literary Festival is less than a week away. In addition to the roster of excellent speakers and panels, there are two special book launch events from the protean Fixi publishing house. The book launch of The Gods and Last Breath takes place on Saturday 29 November...
The past couple of months have seen the announcement of a number major prizes for literary fiction – and we now have them all on our shelves. Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus) is his haunting story...
The Malay Archipelago, the classic account of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's travels through Southeast Asia, first appeared in 1869 and has been much loved by generations of readers ever since. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this edition is the first – long...
So the KL NOIR – a Fixi Novo anthology in 4 volumes finally comes to a fitting finale. Hot off the press comes KL Noir Yellow which, as the publisher promises, is "sick and twisted". In these fifteen short stories and one essay, you get one...
"I remember sitting next to my brother on the dining table, legs dangling while my mother stood in front of us, filling our mouths with food and our heads with tales from ‘those’ days. In ‘those’ days anything could happen: animals that spoke; humans that...