Publisher's Synopsis
Asia Literary Review is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. Asia Literary Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eye-witness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices. In this edition: From The Editor; History a la Carte; Seeing; The Neighbourhood Cha Chan Teng; Table d'Hote; Three Meals Etiquette; Japan & the Battle for Rice; Chop Suey Cinema; Captain; Dining with the Dead; Tomatoes; Frontiers; The World Food Crisis: An Asian Perspective; Making Pasta Sauce: My Independence; Two Women Sitting at a Window Table in a Cafe; The Chinese Meal, Uneaten; Sweet and Sour; Lychee Tree and the Other Woman -- A Man Kissing a Woman Kissing Honey; Scavenging on Gold Mountain: of Food & Poetry; Hari Kunzru; Gods Without Men; Pursed for a Kiss: Jabberwock Sandwiches Wise Onion; Indigo; My Kind of Town . . . Party Like it's 1966.
