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
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
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
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…
Meet These Writers by Rouwen Lin
AFTER three months of preparation and with five writers now on board, the latest addition to Penang’s arts and culture calendar is set to take off this weekend. The two-day George Town Literary Festival started with a vision: when Penang…
The quiet desperation of crumbling regimes, by Nathaniel Tan
Article below is taken from Malaysian Insider. MARCH 29 — Bernice Chauly has a number of photos currently on display at the Annexe Gallery that I hope you’ll find time to have a look at (the rest are quite good…
Essay for Plantation Nation
(click on thumbnails to read essay) Written for Plantation Nation, Megan Keating’s exhibition in Rimbun Dahan, 2009.
The Caged Bird Sings – text and photographs for vida! magazine
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Bernice Chauly does the Bulgares
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