Fridae

The ongoing exhibition and a separately booked 11 November conversation offer different ways into the writer’s reading life.

New Masculine, C2AC and Vera Wank join the Singapore bill, with proceeds supporting the Paddy Chew Empowerment Fund.

Shoko Nakamura’s animated romance about two schoolboys who grow close during choir practice opens at selected Vieshow cinemas on 6 November.

Loneliness Books in Higashi-Nakano gathers books and zines from across Asia. Check the practical details before making the trip.

A new Taiwan report puts database design on the inclusion agenda. Here are questions to take into a recruitment-software demonstration.

The award-winning newspaper archive offers a way into nineteenth-century lives, with further stories preserved in letters and museum collections.

Surface Tension explores the impressions people leave on each other. The Cairns Pride exhibition is in its final days at Tank 4 Gallery.

Chen Kuan-chun’s documentary follows Birdy, a trans man in Taiwan. The director has described choosing one person’s story and respecting the limits he set on filming.

An opening excerpt pairs an imperial book mission with a remembered lover, ahead of the novel’s US publication on 27 October.

Ahead of the 6 November album, Elly Jackson’s own account of writing and sexuality offers a way into the new music.