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Product Description The first of a planned annual series concentrating on local non-fiction writing. From polemic to ode to memoir, this series invites Malaysian readers - and writers - to notice, analyse and interpret the living, throbbing, squelching vitality around them. Multi-disciplinary, multi-tasking and best appreciated on multi-vitamins, this first collection takes us from Brian Yap's election-era critique to Amir Muhammad's alternative lexicon by way of Burhan Baki's elegant deconstructions, Aminuddin Mahmud's seminar on branding and Saharil Hasnin Sanin's knockabout ruminations on language [this essay is in Malay] before rounding off with Sonia Randhawa's stirring call for national (and therefore personal) self-realisation. Review New Malaysian Essays (only Volume One so far, but I'm certain future volumes will also fit the bill) epitomizes the oft-quoted maxim of disputed attribution: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.' --Preeta SamarasanThis handsome first volume deserves to be bought, read and debated...New Malaysian Essays 1 is certainly setting a benchmark for high production values as well as intellectual audacity. --Kakiseni.com