My review of four books on the Holocaust including Jószef Debreczeni's Cold Crematorium and Julian Borger's I Seek a Kind Person.

My review of Nicholas Rankin's memoir Trapped in History, about his childhood in colonial Kenya, in today's The Irish Times irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

🪡 All about Chinese cinema! We are hoping to publish reviews of these titles in 2024. If you are interested in reading and writing about any of them, please email [email protected].

My review of Jonathan Clements's Rebel Island, an excellent new history of Taiwan, which is worth 1,000 blowhard op-eds on the supposedly looming invasion. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

'Excellent [...] splendid portrait of the layers of identity and resistance in what is no less a settler society than the United States, Australia, or Argentina.' Great to see Oliver Farry's review of Jonathan Clements' REBEL ISLAND in The The Irish Times irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Oliver Farry on Wim Wenders's 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠 (2023): "Setting a film in Japan is... fraught with risk... of overexoticising the country through Western eyes. Wenders’s view of Tokyo is neither wide-eyed nor complacent." chajournal.blog/2024/03/21/per…

My review in The Irish Times of Atef Abu Saif's Don't Look Left, a diary of the author's first 85 days of the present war in Gaza, an ordeal that he says he survived "only by mistake". irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

I'm in Germany now for a six-month residency & I'm interested in going to academic/literary events and visiting other universities in the wider region. Invitations relating to my academic/creative work are very welcome. My third poetry collection will be published in May as well.

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Oliver Farry on 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 (2024), directed by Élise Girard and starring Isabelle Huppert: "... takes liberties with the spectral valency of Japan and much of it draws on earlier cinema”. chajournal.blog/2024/04/12/sid…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Oliver Farry on 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡 (2023), dr. Babak Jalali, about a writer of fortune messages: "... realistic in the way it foregrounds the deadening boredom of so many immigrant experiences[.]" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/fre…

Is there a database of films/documentaries about the Hong Kong protests? (Picture by Oliver Farry.)

I wrote.

As fellows here we're highly encouraged to speak at symposia and literary festivals, & also to students & the public, on topics relevant to our research and creative interests. I'm happy to travel. Pls let me know if you'd like to invite me or if you know of any opportunities. ❤

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Oliver Farry Oliver Farry writes about 𝐸𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 (2023), dir. by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi: "Nature is the overarching dominion in this film—& the sole thing that Takumi fears." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.blog/2024/04/29/evi…

I'll be in London later this year (5-10 Oct) & I'd be interested in any creative or academic events that might be happening in that time that I could participate in. Any suggestions are welcome. (L: An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong—I love this little book. Not for sale. R: New.)

What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?; Hope and Despair: Israel’s Future in the New Middle East; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Blindness: October 7 and the Left irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Culture

A review I wrote of four books related to Israel-Palestine. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

🇫🇷🎵 French singer, 60s pop culture icon #FrançoiseHardy dies at 80. A reluctant superstar, #Hardy became a pop icon and fashion muse of the 1960s and beyond. Her portrait by Oliver Farry and Héloïse Mélan ⤵️

🇫🇷🔴 #France is facing a hung parliament and the prospect of tax negotiations to form a government. 🗳️ That's after a surprise left-wing surge blocked #MarineLePen's quest to bring the far right to power Sunday. Oliver Farry reports ⤵️ #Législatives2024 #ElectionsLegislatives2024

Delighted #FixingFrance is reviewed in The Irish Times. ‘A vigorous jeremiad that makes many sound arguments about the often sclerotic nature of French society and the marginalisation many people of immigrant descent, like her, experience. A persuasive case.’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…