By OOI KEE BENG, Editorial, September 2025, Penang Monthly WE LIVE WITHIN narratives, don’t we? Our identities are built on them. Our collective identities are definitely group memories woven by time into stories and narratives, and into memories and myths. For places and times for whom there are few stories, we use terms like “prehistorical”, “no … Continue reading
INTERVIEW with Tan Twan Eng. In Penang Monthly, February 2014. OOI KEE BENG: What fascinates me greatly about your writing is your ability – and your apparent need – to embellish your narration with a sensitive description of some act or item occurring on the side. I hesitate to use the word “embellish”, because very … Continue reading