Tash Aw

Tash Aw is the author of four novels and a family memoir, Strangers on a Pier, which was published in 2021. (May 2023)

Writing into Silence

“What happens when, through education and the resulting social mobility, the writer comes to incarnate power over others—like the person they once were?”

May 13, 2023

Personal Histories

Drawing from sources both archival and personal, the photographer Sim Chi Yin explores the legacy of British colonialism and conflict in Malaya.

Sim Chi Yin: One Day We’ll Understand

an exhibition at Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, September 14–November 27, 2021

She Never Rode That Trishaw Again

by Sim Chi Yin

May 11, 2023 issue

To Forget and Survive

Is it possible to excavate trauma, Asako Serizawa’s interlinked stories ask, if the people and countries concerned prefer their pain to remain buried?

Inheritors

by Asako Serizawa

March 25, 2021 issue

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