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Sarawak runs statewide blood drive to replenish supplies after Raya

Local restaurants helping out, providing premises

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Heartbeat of Johor: the Kompang Jidor tradition 

The rare rhythms of Kompang Jidor will be showcased at Cendana’s Panggung Rakyat tomorrow

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Baudelaire and the other side of beauty

To mark the bicentennial of Charles Baudelaire’s birth, a concise look at how he revolutionised modern European poetry

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Visionary flights – the primal lure of poetry

World Poetry Day: It is a way of saying what cannot be expressed otherwise, a linguistic vessel that gives life to the ‘unsayable'

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The indomitable ‘semangat’ of Kelantanese women

To celebrate International Women’s Day, a reflection on the powerful spirit of Kelantanese women in mythology and contemporary times

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Beyond the margins of Mahua literature

Once a vital literary activity, championed by the likes of National Laureate Usman Awang, its translation is gaining new reach

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Rebel of the Renaissance – on Zora Neale Hurston

The writer and folklorist was a central literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance

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A year of radical reading

The necessary power of the written word for our fragile human condition

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Savage splendour: on Clarice Lispector

The writer was a sensation in Brazil’s literary circles, celebrated for her bold modernist prose

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Through the looking glass of literature 

George Town Literary Festival 2020's line-up includes Fatimah Busu, Wang Gungwu and Alfian Sa'at

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Dream-weaving between worlds

Sarawak-born writer Kulleh Grasi's work is striking in his multilingual shape-shifting