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Recent Posts
- May Kamaka wins the Miss Chinatown Hawaii 2026 Pageant
- M+ host of Guo Pei’s first major fashion exhibition in East Asia
- Photos: G-STAR “Anatomic Denim” F/W 2025 collection & Denim Gorilla
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – Shohei tutors Teoscar?
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – V of BTS throws opening pitch
- MLB: Dodgers 5, Reds 1 (Aug. 27, 2025) – Ohtani records first win as a Dodgers pitcher
- Another gold medal, another world record for Mondo Duplantis
- In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
- “A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
- Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
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Books & Literature Archive
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Comiket 99 Zine Reviews: The Illustrators
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 12, 2022 | No CommentsA few illustrators decided to feature food and fashion in visually creative ways. -
Comiket 99 Zine Reviews: The Travelogues
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 10, 2022 | No CommentsPersonal travel diaries were aplenty at Comiket 99. Some were straightforward, detailing a destination(s) and daily random musings. Others, however, went a step further. Our recommendations follow that latter approach. -
Your Guide to Surviving* Comiket
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 4, 2022 | No Comments(* = there is really no way to survive Comiket, but hopefully this advice on how to tackle the semi-annual fan convention in Tokyo will help) -
Nanako Hirose’s “book-paper-scissors” – 2019 Busan Film Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 6, 2019 | No CommentsDirected and shot over a period of three years, the documentary examines book designer Nobuyoshi Kikuchi’s meticulous process across seven chapters. -
Kenzo launches biography at the Azzedine Alaïa Association in Paris
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on March 25, 2019 | No CommentsDays after turning 80, the legendary fashion designer appeared at the Association to sign copies of his book, Kenzo Takada, published by Editions du Chêne. -
Graphic Novel Review: Paper Girls, Vols. 1-2
Rex BaylonPosted on June 17, 2017 | No CommentsPaper Girls is a work of unparalleled beauty that plumbs the depths of teenage ennui to present us with a story of four girls. -
Graphic Novel Review: Monstress, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on June 17, 2017 | No CommentsMonstress, Vol. 1, is a mature work of fantasy and the steampunk genre. It takes the historical and makes it mythic. -
Singapore Contemporary 2017 / PHOTO17: Daido Moriyama
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 14, 2017 | No CommentsDaido Moriyama made his mark after capturing scenes of post-war Japan, searching for the sinister and the haunting in a teetering urban landscape. -
Art Stage Singapore 2017: Sai Hashizume – Beautiful Stranger
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 13, 2017 | No CommentsThe book examines a decade of work by Sai Hashizume, who places her viewers as uncomfortable near-participants in hyperreal pieces resembling photography. -
Graphic Novel Review: Bitch Planet, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on May 12, 2017 | No CommentsKelly Sue DeConnick’s graphic novel Bitch Planet (2014-ongoing), is an unabashed celebration to the harridan, hellcat vixens of the female sex.