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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‘Calling upon an instant noodle version of the Muse to dream up and deliver lines on the spot.’—an essay by Marc Nair.
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‘This is a prayer in the direction of after.’—an essay by Raka Banerjee.
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In this review, Ally Chua describes how grief and elements of the fantastical fuel Lydia Kwa’s 2024 poetry collection from time to new.
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This month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a tour of SFF writing from Brunei to Singapore.
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Two sisters, two lives, and a guitar. A short story by Shikhandin.
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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).
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews “Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity and Joy,” by Simon Wu (New York: Harper, 2024).
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‘You can’t bring people back from the dead’—Genevieve Hartman reviews author Eunice Hong.
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter
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This National Day month, Ng Yi-Sheng considers works from Malaysian writers in Singapore.
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‘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.
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