By Sharon Chau The challenge facing Hong Kong writers today is not simply the tightening of speech but the quiet disappearance of the city around them. Everyday life continues, yet something essential has slipped away, leaving the sense of a place being slowly rewritten. In City Like Water, Dorothy Tse’s third book to be translated into English, she turns this vanishing into art, exploring what stories endure when a city begins to lose its own reflection. The setting is an un

JOSEPH COWARD - It is possible that a long time ago you read Olga Tokarczuk's 'House of Day, House of Night'

By Linden Hibbert Honourable mention in the ORB's MT25 Short Fiction Prize, judged by Laird Hunt. Photograph by Linden Hibbert He wanted the dog, his mother always reminds him, so he can fucking walk it. And he does walk it, though he nips out early so not to give her the satisfaction of seeing him do as he’s told. This time of year, it’s dark when he leaves, flat light all day at school and then dark when he gets home. Today he feels like bunking off, him and the dog. It’s m