The violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.

With his poems on consumption and fear, Christian Hanz Lozada lays out a powerful three-course meal using ingredients from a caged crocodile, an insulted street food vendor, and a supermarket aisle.

A relationship with an electric character lands a university student into a startling new world in which the typical rules don't apply, in this story from Michael Balili.

What do a pearl, a bell and a dropped pipe tell us about colonial violence? Three poems from Kapil Kachru.

In times of political upheaval, what are we touched – or left untouched – by? Matt Reeck’s translations of Leeladhar Jagoori show us what happens when opposites collide.

A sharp new story by Christian Yeo interrogates the state of surveillance.

As the new year beckons, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five books, whose topics range from the genocide in Palestine to the Sino-Japanese War in Chungking, that remind us of the moral necessity of hope.

In this essay on the films of Iranian director Alireza Khatami, Robert Hirschfield isolates the qualities and influences that distinguish this body of work.

Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.

What is it like to be exiled from a colony, tribe, group and to be chained to a false name? Read the new story by Krystalle Teh.

Eunice Lim reviews A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa (Hamilton, Ontario: Buckrider Books, 2023).

Kwan Ann Tan reviews Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka, translated by Kalau Almony (United Kingdom: Honford Star, 2024).

Darkly subversive, as appropriate to the times, five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora, reviewed by Ng Yi-Sheng.

Jonathan Chan talks to translator Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng about approaches to translation, notions of ephemerality, and modes of literary relationship.

Does the August Revolution in Bangladesh give cause for hope? Gaudy Boy author Mozid Mamud reflects on the revolution in the light of the country’s history of fissures.

The miracle of watermelons: what is it? A new story by Vũ Trọng Hiếu.

Yin F Lim reviews The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian & Singaporean Writing edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva, William Tham.

In her review of Habitations by Sheila Sundar, Kristin T. Lee calls the fictional work “a subtle showstopper of a novel.”

What are the living connections between Indonesian and Chilean poetries? Damhuri Muhammad reviews the important binational anthology Para Lavida.

For the creepy month of October, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews hellish supernatural yarns from Singapore, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Croatia.

Robert Hirschfield pays an insightful and heartfelt tribute to a haiku master of South India.

Eunice Lim reviews Yellowface, a novel by R. F. Kuang.

In his essay about moving from Singapore to Germany, Thow Xin Wei reflects on what it means to learn a new language in order to fit in.

Hurt, like hammers, can be aimed at the wrong targets. How much can we trust the carpenter? Three new poems from Ally Chua.

Why does he carry a violin with him everywhere but is so reluctant to play it? An atmospheric new story by Niranjan Kumar Rai.

Apollos Michio reviews Missed Connections: Microfiction from Asia, edited by Felix Cheong and Noelle Q. de Jesus.

Brace yourself for a thrilling ride when Ng Yi-Sheng hops on the crime thriller train.

How different are we from the insects we admire and kill? Eric Abalajon translates three poems by the Filipino poet Jhio Jan Navarro.

In the new story “Moonlit Lake,” by Neo Xin Yuan, the ethnically Chinese narrator joins a special Singaporean school for the advanced study of Chinese language and culture and discovers a realm of differences.