The Asia Literary Review is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. Asia Literary Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eye-witness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices from Shanghai to Mumbai. In this edition: Paul French voyages into pirate-infested waters on the South China Sea; Director's Cut: Royston Tan on the fate of film in Singapore; Urvashi Butalia recalls her wayward father in life and death. Fiction by: O Thiam Chin, Tom Cho, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Anna Jaquiery, Dipika Mukherjee, Alice Nelson and Qiu Xiaolong. Poetry by: Margaret Atwood, Andrew Barker, Michelle Cahill, Sally Dellow, Louise Ho, Thaddeus Rutkowski.