For Consciousness

INTRODUCTION to Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (USA: Gaudy Boy, forthcoming in March 2021).

Dancing between Saris and Sorrows

Prasanthi Ram reviews This is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah (USA: The University of Georgia Press, 2020).

Memoir, ReviewJee KohNovember 9, 2020Prasanthi Ram, Sejal Shah, The University of Georgia PressComment

"The Fungal Piece of Shit Tells Me the Name of God" and Other Poems

Three Poems by Marylyn Tan.

PoetryJee KohNovember 5, 2020Marylyn TanComment

A Deepavali "Carol" in Singapore

Aimee Liu reviews Anittha Thanabalan’s The Lights That Find Us (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohNovember 2, 2020Anittha Thanabalan, Epigram Books, Aimee Liu Comment

Three Ghosts

“Three Ghosts” by Shou Jie Eng.

PoetryJee KohOctober 29, 2020Shou Jie EngComment

Art Is + JinJin Xu

Poet JinJin Xu on writing in a language of betrayal, subversion, and recovery.

Interview, PoetryJee KohOctober 21, 2020JinJin Xu, Janelle Tan, Radix MediaComment

There Is Something Wrong With This Picture

A poem by Niccolo Rocamora Vitug.

PoetryJee KohOctober 20, 2020Niccolo Rocamora VitugComment

The Wilderness in the City

Sebastian Taylor reviews Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2020).

Heists and Hijinks

S.R. Graham reviews How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam (Epigram Books, 2020).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohOctober 12, 2020Joshua Kam, S.R. Graham, Epigram BooksComment

The Archaelogist's Lover

A story by Sharmini Aphrodite.

FictionJee KohOctober 7, 2020Sharmini AphroditeComment

Art Is + Zining Mok

Poet Zining Mok speaks about interrogating colonial archives and narratives in her debut collection The Orchid Folios.

Interview, PoetryJee KohOctober 5, 2020Zining Mok, Janelle Tan, Ethos BooksComment

The Mother in the Mirror

Ilyas Lukman reviews The Need by Helen Phillips (USA: Simon and Schuster, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohSeptember 21, 2020Ilyas Lukman, Helen Phillips, Simon and Schuster, Mary RuefleComment

Carceral Capitalism

Jackie Wang on sunbelt penology, the debt economy, and prison technology.

EssayJee KohSeptember 16, 2020Jackie Wang, MIT Press, Singapore Literature Festival in NYCComment

Multiplies when Touched

Sharmini Aphrodite reviews The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote (USA: Counterpoint, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohSeptember 14, 2020Beth Piatote, Counterpoint Press, Sharmini AphroditeComment

Horizons of Care

Jack Xi reviews Craig Santos Perez’s Habitat Threshold (USA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohSeptember 9, 2020Jack Xi, Carig Santos Perez, OmnidawnComment

Long Forgotten, Long Overdue

Aimee Liu on the saga of Alfred Bird and the Singapore War Crimes Trials.

EssayJee KohSeptember 7, 2020Alfred Bird, Aimee Liu, Lim Jia Yi, Cheah W. L., Rabin RoychowdhuryComment

How to Struggle Correctly

Naveen Kaur reviews Trisha Low’s Socialist Realism (USA: Coffee House Press, 2019).

Memoir, ReviewJee KohSeptember 2, 2020Trisha Low, Naveen Kaur, Coffee House PressComment

Carcerality and Freedom

Judy Luo on how the prison sits at the nexus of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism.

EssayJee KohAugust 26, 2020Judy Luo, Carcerality, AbolitionComment

How to Tell an Impossible Story

Stephanie Chan reviews Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (USA: Graywolf Press, 2019).

Memoir, ReviewJee KohAugust 24, 2020Stephanie Chan, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf PressComment

To Shelter and Buoy

Kendrick Loo reviews Tariq Luthun’s How The Water Holds Me (Bull City Press, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohAugust 17, 2020Tariq Luthun, Kendrick Loo, Bull City PressComment

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