Malaysia's Answer to Harry Potter?
Demand has been so hot for this local series that Popular Bookstores now takes up to 500 copies of its new releases, as opposed to its usual practice of ordering a maximum of 10 copies per title for each outlet....The first batch ordered always exceeds 4,500 copies, and all will be sold within a month. ... To date

Reporting From The Front Line
Sorry for not blogging earlier, I was at a place called Frideswide on the Western Front attending to the casualties and dodging fire in the trenches. And I'm only half joking.Two of my great loves, poetry and Second Life

The Allah Controversy and the Confiscated Bibles
Malaysia once more hits the world news for all the wrong reasons :Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent months because they referred to "God" as "Allah," a transla

What They Said About the SWF
Zafar Anjum on the Writer's Connect website argues that although the theme for this year's Singapore Writers' Festival was Undercovers, a better word would have been Chaos - not reflecting the organisation of the event

Quietness
... quietness seems to be the trademark of Guat Eng’s collection of short stories. The click of the computer. The brush of a lace handkerchief against the skin. The ‘soft scrabbling noise and the small chirrup at the window’. Her characters – especially the women –