“Thumb over the halo-halo layers ghostly over the seated pink mini” and “I will tell an old story of my name”

By Kimberly Alidio
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Poetry

ARAB AMERICAN scowls. bares teeth. bares/ ARAB TEETH.

Essays

Gardaya’s letters offer glimpses into his fruitless search for love and acceptance in America

Fiction

I think about your hands when I look at mine

Nine essays and stories from a new generation of writers grappling with the Malayan Emergency | 新世代作家的九篇文章和故事探討馬來亞緊急狀態

Essays

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

Essays

An examination of Malayan Emergency fiction’s depiction of Sinophone, Anglophone, and Indigenous points of view

Fiction

He had once asked his mother to describe his father’s face, a question whose weight he did not recognise until he had been older.

Poetry

You wanted to talk about big / concepts like love as though they’re worth anything.

Essays

Imagining the future through words and through kin

Malaysian-born filmmaker Lau Kek Huat grapples with the difficulties of visually representing the Emergency

Fiction

但巡迴遊樂園並不害怕,只要再次拆卸自毀,它們換個地方就可以重新活過來。
| As long as the traveling carnival committed self-destruction, it could come alive once more in a different place.

Essays

A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

Essays

Transgressing spatial and temporal bounds through the image

Essays

How translating the writings of a former Malayan Communist Party member changed me

Fiction

I was angry then. No. I wanted to be just like her.

Poetry

In Japanese, chizu is the word for map. In a sentence:/ Nihon no chizu wa arimasu ka?

Poetry

“Thumb over the halo-halo layers ghostly over the seated pink mini” and “I will tell an old story of my name”

Poetry

ARAB AMERICAN scowls. bares teeth. bares/ ARAB TEETH.

Essays

Gardaya’s letters offer glimpses into his fruitless search for love and acceptance in America

Fiction

I think about your hands when I look at mine

Malaysian-born filmmaker Lau Kek Huat grapples with the difficulties of visually representing the Emergency

Nine essays and stories from a new generation of writers grappling with the Malayan Emergency | 新世代作家的九篇文章和故事探討馬來亞緊急狀態

Fiction

但巡迴遊樂園並不害怕,只要再次拆卸自毀,它們換個地方就可以重新活過來。
| As long as the traveling carnival committed self-destruction, it could come alive once more in a different place.

Essays

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

Essays

A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

Essays

An examination of Malayan Emergency fiction’s depiction of Sinophone, Anglophone, and Indigenous points of view

Essays

Transgressing spatial and temporal bounds through the image

Fiction

He had once asked his mother to describe his father’s face, a question whose weight he did not recognise until he had been older.

Essays

How translating the writings of a former Malayan Communist Party member changed me

Poetry

You wanted to talk about big / concepts like love as though they’re worth anything.

Fiction

I was angry then. No. I wanted to be just like her.

Essays

Imagining the future through words and through kin