‘Even though everything has been arranged in careful accordance with planetary agendas, everybody agrees this is the worst possible time for a wedding.’—Kashmir, 1947. A short story by Kapil Kachru.
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Magical realism and fantasy abound in this month’s column by Ng Yi-Sheng, who shares his line-up of speculative fiction by authors of the Malay diaspora.
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SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces a new series on Indigenous Realities in Asia with a fieldnote from Sabah, Borneo.
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The winning poems of the 12th SUSPECT Poetry Contest offer quiet intimacies, brilliant honesty, and alluring music.
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Though “Christmas is a wish to return only to childhood”, what innocence do children have left? Three poems by Miguel Barretto García.
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‘So how can writers of the other rise up to this moment, when the question of who owns the car keys to the narrative matters more than ever?’—Lydia Wei reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s To Save and to Destroy (2025).
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In these three elemental poems, Ana Morales asks us “to speak of this now and believe, in disruption”.
Read More‘They wanted me to confess. To name my crimes against God.’ A short story by Layla Sabourian.
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In the lead-up to Singapore’s National Day, Felix Cheong reviews four SG graphic novels—from the grotesque to the anthropological.
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Yap Hao Yang reviews the recent reissue of A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore by Samuel Lee and finds its conceit still fresh and enduring.
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'In that mother tongue I had little care for—you’re growing up, hou jai, I can see you’re growing up.'—a short story by Justin Wu.
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“foreign eclipses/ are purer, he says, custom-free”. Three poems on reorderings by Sumit Shetty.
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A meditation on time by Sabahat Fida.
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Stitching together life’s failures, imperfections, and detours: a new story by Pijus Ash.
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A wide-ranging and stimulating conversation with Xu Xi, author of the story collection Horizon Hong Kong (Gaudy Boy, July 1, 2026).
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This month marks 250 years since the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. To mark it, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us through five titles from ‘countries who bled for the Red, White and Blue’.
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A short story by Alvin B. Yapan, translated by Christian Jil Benitez, asks a ‘cultural question that has long been posed to the Philippines: is it even possible to have a serial killer here?’
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How do you greet the end of the world? A short story by Kannika Claudine Peña.
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