We have just entered a new year, so allow me to kick off this magazine’s fifth year in its present form with some observations about the central importance of narratives – of stories, if you like – to every individual human being.We all have a large schemata in our heads within which we locate our own experiences and aspirations, and our lives as a whole. In different minds, this narrative conflation may range in exactness from the precision of an...
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is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.