A month of graphic novels? Glorious. Ng Yi-Sheng is our guide to the tragic, the fantastic, and the pandemic.

What are these ghost orchids in Ismim Putera’s new story “Bunga”? Are they even orchids or not?

From salt to frozen yogurt, Valerie Eng takes us through a jumbled journey of flavors—equal parts liquid and sharp, joyful and grieving.

In this new story by Devanshi Khetarpal, an unsettling neighbor gets under the skin.

Do objects give off an aura? What about texts about objects? This playful new story by Glenn Diaz, featuring a weary encyclopedist, questions the credentials of literature.

Success and scandal makes this month a good time for global speculative fiction, according to Ng Yi-Sheng.

What else can a miscarriage bring but pain to a woman in a traditional marriage in Bangladesh? Find out in this new story by Sohana Manzoor.

With these three poems, Anuradha VIjayakrishnan attends to distance, belonging, and endings, showing how life endures even in the most hostile spaces.

What does letting go mean in the future? Shalini Ajay Singh attempts an answer in this new work of speculative fiction.

Eunice Lim reviews Gardens at Phoenix Park, by Wong Souk Yee, and finds subversive verve in its blurring of the boundary between fact and fiction.

What is this story “Doctor Pollux Lacoste,” by Atty Nicias J Alameda? Is it a parable, a satire, or a prophecy?

For Black History Month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes a look at the many genres that contemporary Black authors write in.

“The sea wind has upset the soil.” With great delicacy, Maggie Wang interlaces personal and domestic concerns with ecological troubles.

In her review of Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz, Annina Zheng-Hardy finds slippages and obsessions and, yes, beauty.