A Tale of Two Lives

In this review, Ally Chua describes how grief and elements of the fantastical fuel Lydia Kwa’s 2024 poetry collection from time to new.

ReviewJee KohSeptember 26, 2025Ally ChuaComment

#YISHREADS September 2025

This month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a tour of SFF writing from Brunei to Singapore.

ReviewJee KohSeptember 26, 2025Comment

Guitar Beneath the Stairs

Two sisters, two lives, and a guitar. A short story by Shikhandin.

FictionJee KohSeptember 19, 2025ShikhandinComment

Review of the Enigmatic Madam Ingram and Sister Snake

Olivia Ho reviews The Enigmatic Madam Ingram by Meihan Boey (Singapore: Epigram, 2023) and Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (New York: Ecco Books, 2024).

ReviewJee KohSeptember 12, 2025Olivia HoComment

The Félix to His Felix, the Steven to his Telfar

Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews “Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity and Joy,” by Simon Wu (New York: Harper, 2024).

ReviewJee KohSeptember 12, 2025Ashley Marilynne WongComment

The Liminal Spaces of Loss: An Interview with Eunice Hong

‘You can’t bring people back from the dead’—Genevieve Hartman reviews author Eunice Hong.

InterviewJee KohSeptember 5, 2025Genevieve HartmanComment

Introspective Incineration

Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter

ReviewJee KohSeptember 5, 2025Ashley Marilynne WongComment

#YISHREADS August 2025

This National Day month, Ng Yi-Sheng considers works from Malaysian writers in Singapore.

ReviewJee KohAugust 29, 2025Ng Yi-ShengComment

Drought’s Vengeance

‘I had defeated the gods of wind and rain, but that was more than a millennium ago, before this man’s people even started to decimate this land.’ – a short story by Wen Wen Yang.

FictionJee KohAugust 29, 2025Wen Wen YangComment

Laji of Batanes

Let’s go to the sea—a collection of Laji translated and compiled by Dorian S. Merina for our Of the Sea portfolio.

Poetry, EssayJee KohAugust 29, 2025Dorian S. Merina, Of the SeaComment

Of Salt and Silver

The sea gives, the sea takes away. A short story by Ismim Putera for our Of the Sea portfolio.

FictionJee KohAugust 22, 2025Ismim Putera, Of the SeaComment

Three Poems from the Celebes Sea

What invisible lines are crossed at sea? Poems by M.J. Cagumbay Tumamac, translated by Eric Gerard H. Nebran for “Of the Sea”.

PoetryJee KohAugust 22, 2025M.J. Cagumbay Tumamac, Eric Gerard H. Nebran, Of the SeaComment

Duyung

The sea trickles through generations and memories in this short story by Sofia Mariah Ma for our Of the Sea portfolio.

FictionJee KohAugust 15, 2025Sofia Mariah Ma, Of the SeaComment

Blast Fishing for Beginners

In Napoleon Arcilla’s explosive poems for “Of the Sea”, we are asked to “Sense everything with [our] calloused hands.”

PoetryJee KohAugust 15, 2025Napoleon Arcilla, Of the SeaComment

Art, Music and Statelessness in Sabah

Writer Erel talks to the artist Drop about art, music, protest, and power.

EssayJee KohAugust 8, 2025Erel, Drop, Of the SeaComment

Editor’s Note: Of the Sea

SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces our latest portfolio on maritime Southeast Asia.

ReviewJee KohAugust 8, 2025Sharmini Aphrodite, Of the SeaComment

Poetry in the Age of AI

‘What has not been spoken and remains to be made flesh’. From Gwee Li Sui’s keynote lecture at the Poetry Festival Singapore 2025.

EssayJee KohAugust 1, 2025Gwee Li SuiComment

Just Looking

“In one month we are/ Particles of dust”; in another, a red stain that spans an island. Mani Rao presents three poems on the expiration date of love.

PoetryJee KohAugust 1, 2025Mani RaoComment

Paradiso Resort

A meeting at a bar, rites for departure: a short story by Rayji de Guia.

FictionJee KohJuly 25, 2025Rayji de GuiaComment

#YISHREADS July 2025

Southeast Asian monsters, unfaithful translations, and more – this July, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews short story collections from Hong Kong to the Filipino diaspora.

ReviewJee KohJuly 25, 2025Ng Yi-ShengComment

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