‘The first clean air came quietly. Felt wrong, almost. Like walking into your house after a funeral.’ – A short story by Ian Mark Ganut.
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Is the immovable “nation/of know” opposed to or running on an unstoppable force? Three poems by Ryan Phung.
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This Christmas season, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us to the Middle East.
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This year, 25 writers and thinkers recommend their favourite reads from and about Asia.
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“Blackouts bring us together.” Three poems on civil war by Maung Htike Aung.
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Ling Ling Huang’s Immaculate Conception.
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Excerpt: Shyamasri Maji reviews Shilpi Suneja’s House of Caravans.
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This November, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five literary works that deal with the legacy of HIV.
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‘A stub, a shard—discarded by most, but enough to begin again.’—an essay by Shumin Tan.
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With these three poems, Abuyuan-Llanes shows us the tender passing of time – while “being too young”, while kissing men in clubs, while on highways.
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‘I miss you until I can’t breathe sometimes. It’s nothing new.’–an essay by C. Zhang.
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What is it that “no one wants to explain”? Three poems that echo around the world by Sabyasachi Roy.
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Read the winners on a grandmother’s wok, a Sunday service, and an unrepentant clockmaker.
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“[Doubt] contains within it a seed of desire, for one can only want what one does not immediately possess.” SUSPECT editor-in-chief Sharmini Aphrodite reviews Jonathan Chan’s bright sorrow.
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What does love resolve? What does a story? A new story by Merilyn Chang.
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Pawangs, babaylans, maa khii, and more—this October, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us through a whirlwind of Southeast Asian esoterica.
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Eunice Lim reviews Vanishing Point: The Comic Book.
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In these new poems by Ranudi Gunawardena, who’s really doing the eating – and who lives?
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“[One] can almost taste the iron of blood in their throat.” Hannah Chia reviews the poetry collection Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin.
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“He had, after all, come to this island on a whim. To cut wood down, resurrect it in something lifeless.”
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