A Chinese phone, a cup of water, and the future’s “incisor”: Abdulbasit Oluwanishola presents us with the ways grief is felt, then held.
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Amidst a season of renewal this April, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a journey through the literature of mainland Southeast Asia.
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“This is not a disease/ you isolate yourself to fix.” Three poems by Ryan Yeo on how to keep going.
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Taylor Taeyeon Song reviews Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella.
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Good food-based advice for Poetry Month: find it in yourself to love flies, but don’t leave them any lychee pieces… and don’t talk to bears about mahua. Three poems from Kunjana Parashar.
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When trees join root systems or a grandmother gifts a child knowledge, “who adopts whom?” Three poems by Kinjal Sethia.
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This March, Ng Yi-Sheng treads into subversive histories that traverse from 19th Century Malaya, the Peloponnesian Wars, and a Bangkok that slips out of the reaches of time.
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What do sea birds, Malayalam, and an Indian Jesus have in common? Three poems on home by Feby Joseph.
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The elections are over. The architects of happiness won again. A new story by Jason Low.
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Amanda Juico Dela Cruz discusses the weight of beauty in an essay that braids rage, relief, and power.
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In this winning essay of the 2024 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essay on Singapore and Other Literatures, Sami Goh explores the floral futures of Singapore, as posited by Mok Zining’s the orchid folios.
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From sci-fi to chick lit to sacred texts, Ng Yi-Sheng gives us five picks for Black History Month that speak across time and space to the present day.
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What is it that the snake actually says to Eve? A new story by Levi Abadilla.
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Three poems from Jerusalem speak to the power of vulnerability – shedding “camouflage” for skin. By Atar Hadari.
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How far would you go to avoid bad luck? Read the new story by Melissa Ren to find out.
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Who are those next-door neighbors on the left? Why won’t they have anything to do with us? A campus story by Mosa-ab Z. Mangurun.
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On the cusp of the Year of the Snake, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five works of speculative fiction that trace the journeys of the Chinese diaspora from Singapore to Canada.
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What does V. S. Naipaul mean when he describes the Indian way of seeing as defective? Utkarsh Adhrit finds the answer in Naipaul himself in this essay about embarrassment, colonialism, and history.
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The violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.
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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.
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