There is something quietly radical about standing in the Cour de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles and holding up your phone to find a sculpture blooming in the air before you. No […]
Springs of Love: Where Digital Art Meets the Heart of Brussels
A Warm and Witty Return: Catherine Newman’s “Wreck” Delivers More of What Made “Sandwich” Irresistible
Catherine Newman’s “Wreck” brings back beloved narrator Rocky for a funnier, more poignant sequel. Facing a health scare and local tragedy in western Massachusetts, Rocky navigates family life with Nora Ephron-esque wit. Newman brilliantly blends domestic comedy with meditations on mortality, creating intelligent comfort reading that resonates deeply.
The Asian Prize for Poetry 2025 Long List Announced
The Asian Prizes announces the long list for the inaugural Asian Prize for Poetry 2025, featuring ten works from nine countries exploring the theme “The Earth.” The international jury, chaired by Ukrainian poet Iryna Vikyrchak, selected diverse voices spanning Ukraine, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
The Asian Prize for Short Story 2025 Long List Announced
The Asian Prizes has unveiled the long list for The Asian Prize for Short Story, featuring ten works from writers across India, Indonesia, and Singapore. The competition attracted hundreds of global submissions, evaluated by an international panel spanning Malaysia, India, Ukraine, and Tanzania. The shortlist announcement follows in October with winners declared by year-end.
When Art Met the Streets…
In early 20th-century New York, revolutionary artists abandoned fancy subjects to capture gritty, unvarnished American life. The Ashcan School painted tenements and taverns instead of Fifth Avenue socialites, earning the nickname “apostles of ugliness.” This democratic movement proved ordinary struggles deserved the highest artistic treatment, transforming how America saw itself.
The Asian Group of Literature and Trogon Global Embark on New Journey with Sabin Iqbal as Director, MENA
The Asian Group of Literature and Trogon Global, a UAE-based cultural curation enterprise, embark upon a new journey that promises to stir fresh currents in the global literary landscape. With this pioneering venture, UAE-based cultural curator, novelist and journalist Sabin Iqbal assumes the role of Director Global for both The Asian Prizes and The Asian Festivals.
Nigerian Writers to Reshape the Global Literary Landscape
Nigerian writers were not simply responding to Western literature or colonial narratives; they were creating distinctly Nigerian literary traditions that demanded recognition on their own terms. Their success demonstrated that African stories held universal appeal when presented without compromising their cultural specificity.
My Life, My Text : Episode 12
Charu Nivedita is a South Indian Author. He has published six works of fiction, six works on cinema and numerous non-fiction. His novel Zero Degree was long listed for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. It is a lipogrammatic novel in Tamil.
” What does get in the way is chores, projects and anything that breaks the routine ” Buchi Ramagopal
” And this reminds me of a quote attributed to Toni Morrison which goes something like “If there is a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it”.
The Uncompromising Vision of Han Kang: Excavating the Depths of Human Trauma
Han Kang’s literary landscape is one where beauty and brutality coexist in uncomfortable proximity, where the body becomes both canvas and battlefield for psychological and historical trauma. Her prose, marked by crystalline precision that renders the unbearable tangible, transforms collective wounds into universal meditations on human existence.
The Asian Review Sinhala Charts New Course with International Partnerships
As The Asian Review Sinhala prepares to enter this new phase on 1st June 2025, it stands as a testament to the enduring value of literature and the importance of community-driven cultural initiatives. In choosing independence and forging international partnerships, the publication is not merely ensuring its own sustainability but is actively contributing to the enrichment of Sri Lanka’s literary landscape.
” My imagination took me all over the world, to different periods in time ” Aruna Roy
When you are fighting for livelihood and life, the language and idioms acceptable are those used by power structures and governments.
The Embodied Vision: Sulaiman Addonia’s Literary Craft
Addonia’s emphasis on the body as the primary site of both oppression and liberation distinguishes his approach. Unlike the cool intellectual distance that characterizes much postcolonial critique, Addonia insists on the primacy of physical experience.
” The process of creating cartoons for me is quite random. Even though I’d like to have a method to it ” Rohan Chakravarty
” In an era when gadgets and media are conspiring to shorten the attention spans of readers, turning human beings into cyborgs, or even worse- living, breathing AI models, I see the act of sitting in your favorite spot with your favorite beverage and sinking into your book as an act of silent rebellion. “
” Fiction mirrors the truths, emotions, and complexities of the world we inhabit.” Rohan Monteiro
Rohan Monteiro’s Shadows Rising brings to life an unlikely hero-irreverent, witty and foul-mouthed-who seems to not have a care in the world. Until someone crosses a line. it is an exciting, fresh and unique take on timeless Indian myths told from the POV of a protagonist who might just be a lot more involved in the epics than he cares to admit.
” Should a scientist contribute to the development of weapons? One has to read the novel” MG Vassanji
But nowadays we are more aware of racism and other forms of bigotry, which fed all kinds of oppression and subjugation of peoples in the past.
” The whole point of art/literature is to encourage people to question everything.” Megha Rao
This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.
“It’s a mistake to think that ‘fiction’ and ‘truth’ are opposites.” Dirk Collier
It is a romanced attempt by a twenty-first-century Western European to read into the mind of a 16th-century Indian monarch
The White Noise Lullaby, By Natasha Sharma
I dream of lakes again. Not lakes, but of a specific lake. Roopkund Lake. Strange to dream in such vivid details about a place one has never visited. This time, my buddh dadda, my Hari, also makes an appearance. I have not thought of my paternal great-grandfather for ages.
The Asian Prize for Short Story 2025 is now open for submissions.
The Asian Group of Literature has immense pleasure in announcing that the secound edition of The Asian Prize for Short Story is now open for submissions. The Asian Prize for Short Story is introduced in order to create a global platform of appreciation for outstanding work of short stories written by writers around the world.
The Asian Review 