Reportage: Truth still denied

The Batang Kali Massacre The Griffith Review 29 SOMETIME IN 1990, I was driving with Mary Maguire, a long-time British resident of Malaysia, in her bright-yellow VW Beetle along a beautiful winding road towards the town of Kuala Kubu Baru,…

Article: Literary town

Article: Literary town

By Kate Mayberry for the Mekong Review Issue 12, August 2018 Link to article: https://mekongreview.com/literary-town/     On the eve of Malaysia’s May election, Bernice Chauly finally sat down to watch Mahathir Mohamad deliver a campaign speech. Over the previous fortnight,…

Review: Writer Bernice Chauly celebrates Malaysia’s dark side

Review: Writer Bernice Chauly celebrates Malaysia’s dark side

New novel depicts the hedonism and idealism of Reformasi-era Kuala Lumpur By Marco Ferrarese for the Nikkei Asian Review Published 26 October, 2017 Link to article: https://s.nikkei.com/2F5hbef Author Bernice Chauly reads from her new novel “Once We Were There” in Singapore…

Review: Once We Were There – debut novel breaks every taboo in the book for Malaysians

Review: Once We Were There – debut novel breaks every taboo in the book for Malaysians

Race, religion, politics, corruption, sex – nothing is off limits for Bernice Chauly in Once We Were There, a daring page-turner, framed by events of Reformasi movement, about a mother in Kuala Lumpur caught up in rapid social change By…

Essay for Plantation Nation

Essay for Plantation Nation

(click on thumbnails to read essay) Written for Plantation Nation, Megan Keating’s exhibition in Rimbun Dahan, 2009.

Bernice Chauly does the Bulgares

Bernice Chauly does the Bulgares

Click on thumbnails to view individual pages Article written for Mens Review magazine.