FOUNDING EDITOR :
Malachi Edwin Vethamani
JOINT EDITOR :
Danton Remoto
COPY EDITOR :
Augustine Chay
Cover photograph by @theblowup
MMOJ is published by Ardent and Paramount Enterprise
e-ISSN : 2773-5613
– EDITORIAL –
– POETRY –
Wong Phui Nam,
At Eighty-Six, Darkfall, The God, and The Hangman
Chuah Guat Eng,
The Meeting of East and West
Kiriti Sengupta,
My Father Looks like Me and Manosphere
Guna Moran,
Fear of Loneliness, Fear, and That Gaze
Osahon Oka,
Finding my Body After an Earthquake and Touching Myself Must be an Incantation
Paul GnanaSelvam,
Unmarried and Bells in Paradise
Aneek Chatterjee,
Vacation, I, and We
Lawrence Pettener,
Round Again and A Sense of Self
Ismim Putera,
And My Father Wants Me to Marry Her and Semangka
Victor Rodriguez Núñez,
the muskrat’s notebook
– DRAMA –
Wong Phui Nam,
Anike
Leon Salam,
Bonsai Tree
– NOVEL –
William Tham Wai Liang,
Excerpt from ‘The Last Days’
Viji Krishnamoorthy,
Excerpts from ‘912 Batu Road’
– SHORT STORY –
Bissme S,
Pink
David Lightfoot,
Get Him to the Reunion
Umar Timol,
The Disbelieving Believer
– CREATIVE NONFICTION –
Otto Fong,
Losing My Mother and Finding Myself
– SCHOLARLY ESSAY –
Enakshi Samarawickrama,
Masking Masculinity Crisis with Gender Performance in Paula Hawkins ‘ The Girl on the Train’
– BOOK REVIEWS –
Shivani Sivagurunathan,
Review of ‘Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation’ (2021)
William Tham Wai Liang,
Review of ‘The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories’ (2021)
– A SPECIAL FEATURE ON WONG PHUI NAM –
The Editors,
Introduction to the Special Feature on Wong Phui Nam
Wong Phui Nam,
Introduction to ‘how the hills are distant’
Alan Durant,
Making One’s Language As One Goes Along: Wong Phui Nam’s ‘Ways Of Exile’
Wong Phui Nam,
Out of the Stony Rubbish: A Personal Perspective on the Writing of Verse in English in Malaysia
KS Maniam,
Introduction to ‘An Acre of Day’s Glass’
Daryl Lim Wei Jie,
Barren Fecundity: The Poetry of Wong Phui Nam
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim,
In Praise of a Gentle Poet
Edwin Thumboo,
Wong Phui Nam – A Note