Slow Rehearsals of Loss

Tricia Tan reviews Focal Point by Jenny Qi (USA: Steel Toe Books, 2021).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohFebruary 8, 2022Tricia Tan, Jenny Qi, Steel Toe BooksComment

A Celebration of Upheaval

Lara Norgaard reviews Rain in Plural by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (USA: Princeton University Press, 2020).

Review, PoetryJee KohFebruary 1, 2022Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Princeton University Press, Lara NorgaardComment

What Does the Book Say?

Rebekah Lim reviews The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (USA: Viking, 2021).

Review, FictionJee KohJanuary 25, 2022Rebekah Lim, Ruth Ozeki, VikingComment

Afterparties, After Loss

Aileen Liang reviews Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties (USA: Ecco, 2021).

ReviewJee KohJanuary 18, 2022Ecco, Anthony Veasna So, Aileen LiangComment

Sovereign Life

Jennifer Anne Champion reviews Han Vanderhart’s What Pecan Light (USA: Bull City Press, 2021).

Review, PoetryJee KohJanuary 11, 2022Bull City Press, Jennifer Anne Champion, Han VanderhartComment

And The Stones Come Tumbling Down

Cheng Him reviews Brandon Courtney’s This, Sisyphus (USA: YesYes Books, 2019).

Review, PoetryJee KohJanuary 4, 2022This Sisyphus, YesYes Books, Brandon Courtney, Cheng HimComment

Reveling in the Darkness

Stephanie Chan reviews Ricky Ray’s Quiet, Grit, Glory (Broken Sleep Books, 2020).

Review, PoetryJee KohDecember 23, 2021Broken Sleep Book, Ricky Ray, Stephanie ChanComment

The Funhouse of America

Audrey Teong reviews Barrett Swanson’s Lost in Summerland (USA: Counterpoint, 2021).

ReviewJee KohDecember 14, 2021Audrey Teong, Barrett Swanson, CounterpointComment

Authoritarianism in the "Free World"

Mandy Chi Man Lo reviews Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization by Jini Kim Watson (Fordham University Press).

ReviewJee KohDecember 7, 2021Mandy Chi Man Lo, Jini Kim Watson, Fordham University PressComment

Passageways Between Cultures

Brad Crenshaw reviews Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields: Poems from Contemporary China, translated by Stephen Haven, Jin Zhong, Li Yongyi, and Wang Shouyi (Twelve Winters Press, 2021).

An Elegant Darkness

Maggie Wang reviews One to the Dark Tower Comes by Yeow Kai Chai (Singapore: firstfruits publications, 2020).

Review, PoetryJee KohNovember 19, 2021Yeow Kai Chai, Maggie Wang, firstfruits publicationsComment

City of Sadness and Violence

Yeow Kai Chai reviews Vijay Seshadri’s That Was Now, This Is Then (USA: Graywolf Press, 2020).

Review, PoetryJee KohNovember 9, 2021Yeow Kai Chai, Vijay Seshadri, Graywolf PressComment

Singing Our Way Into After

Aileen Liang reviews JinJin Xu’s There is Still Singing in the Afterlife (USA: Radix Media, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohNovember 2, 2021Aileen Liang, JinJin XuComment

Endless Wants

Rebecca Kwee reviews How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue (USA: Penguin Random House, 2021).

Review, FictionJee KohOctober 26, 2021Imbolo Mbue, Rebecca Kwee, Penguin Random HouseComment

Playing with Their Food

Stewart Dorward reviews The Flesh Hunters by Jocelyn Suarez (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2021).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohSeptember 24, 2021Stewart Dorward, Jocelyn Suarez, Epigram BooksComment

The Beginning of the End

Eunice Chin reviews Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (US: New Directions, 2020), translated by Jackie Smith.

Fiction, Essay, ReviewJee KohSeptember 21, 2021Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith, Eunice ChinComment

Mosaics at the Margins

Genevieve Hartman reviews Ng Yi-Sheng’s Black Water, Pink Sands (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2020).

Review, TheaterJee KohSeptember 14, 2021Ng Yi-Sheng, Genevieve Hartman, Math Paper PressComment

Out of Step

Stewart Dorward reviews British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality: Queens, Crime and Empire by Han and O’Mahoney (Routledge, 2018).

Review, HistoryJee KohSeptember 7, 2021Stewart Dorward, Enze Han, Joseph O'Mahoney, RoutledgeComment