Subversive Fables

Maggie Wang reviews Cyril Wong’s Animal Season (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohFebruary 5, 2021Maggie Wang, Cyril Wong, Math Paper PressComment

"My Face"

A poem by Ismim Putera.

PoetryJee KohFebruary 2, 2021Ismim PuteraComment

Mind the Gap

Amber Lin reviews Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (USA: One World, 2020).

Essay, ReviewJee KohJanuary 29, 2021Cathy Park Hong, One World, Amber LinComment

"Romeo and Juliet"

A story by Zhumagul Solty, translated by Zaure Batayeva.

FictionJee KohJanuary 22, 2021Zhumagul Solty, Zaure BatayevaComment

Nostalgia and the End of the World

Diana Lu reviews Ling Ma’s Severance (USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohJanuary 19, 2021Ling Ma, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Diana LuComment

The Kapre

A story by Patricia Karunungan.

FictionJee KohJanuary 14, 2021Patricia KarununganComment

The Maw of the World

Eunice Chin reviews Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X (USA: Two Dollar Radio, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohJanuary 11, 2021Eunice Chin, Sarah Rose Etter, Two Dollar RadioComment

Saying Goodbye to America

An Essay by Jonathan Chan.

EssayJee KohJanuary 7, 2021Jonathan Chan Comments

Ironic Historian

Diane Josefowicz reviews A Good, True Thai by Sunisa Manning (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2020).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohJanuary 4, 2021Diane Josefowicz, Sunisa Manning, Epigram BooksComment

A Speech Not Quite at the UN

Excerpt from Of Strangers and Bees: A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale, by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, (USA: Tilted Axis Press, 2019).

FictionJee KohDecember 30, 2020Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Tilted Axis PressComment

"Brittle Nut" by Ally Chua

A Poem by Ally Chua.

PoetryJee KohDecember 24, 2020Ally ChuaComment

World Like and Unlike Ours

Samantha Neugebauer reviews Jason Erik Lundberg’s A Fickle and Restless Weapon (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2020).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohDecember 21, 2020Jason Erik Lundberg, Epigram Books, Samantha NeugebauerComment

Desire to Remedy

Ang Shuang reviews Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue (BOA Editions, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohDecember 14, 2020Ang Shuang, Kathryn Nuernberger, BOA EditionsComment

Visions of the Past

Maggie Wang reviews Werner Kho’s Afterimage (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2018).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohDecember 7, 2020Werner Kho, Maggie Wang, Math Paper PressComment

Present at the Tectonic

Niccolo Rocamora Vitug reviews Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody (USA: Omnidawn, 2020).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohDecember 3, 2020Niccolo Rocamora Vitug, Anthony CodyComment

My Book of the Year 2020

For SP Blog’s 7th Annual Books Round-up, 41 Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers, living in Singapore and abroad, give their favorite read of the year.