How do we look at violence? In three new poems, Chimmy Meer shows us through a Filipino crucifixion reenactment, falling cherry blossoms, and a corpse cleanup gone wrong.
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‘Will we rise with the stars, or be washed away by the coming monsoons?’—This May, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five science fiction titles from the archipelagic Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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‘So we used the cutlass for the cane fields.’—Sharmini Aphrodite speaks to Rajiv Mohabir about coolieness and the plantation in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.
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In these exquisitely lyrical poems, Christian Emecheta reflects on the postcolonial uses of landscape and language.
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A short story by Preeta Samarasan lays bare one of the Malaysian state’s greatest sins.
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Cold rain, a kitchen cabinet, and the curl of a tongue: three poems by C. Aishwarya exploring migration and memory between New York and Singapore.
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‘They made me sink fully into myself, feel everything that has been lost, every person—named and unnamed by the writers of history—whose life was violently discarded.’—Reading Désirée Reynold’s Seduce (2013), an essay by Olivia Simone.
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‘The Tadjah does not disappear. It sediments, creating pores and possibilities of leakage: of values, practices, memories; across language, oceans, borders.’—procession, history and architecture kaleidoscope in Singapore’s Nagore Durgah, in this essay by Samira Hassan.
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Expressing a keen appreciation of the beauty and the damage to our homeland archipelago, Amilcar Peter Sanatan’s poems make us see and hear anew.
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SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces ARCHIPELAGIC ENTANGLEMENTS, our latest portfolio putting Southeast Asia and the Caribbean in conversation.
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‘If I offended you in any shape or form, I’m truly sorry. I didn’t mean to. But do not mistake my politeness and respectfulness for an apology.’—a war diary from Iran.
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‘Something older, wilder, untainted by the contemporary world order’––dive into epic poetry from the Global South with Ng Yi-Sheng this May.
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“We moved through the world translucent”. Two poems and an excerpt from Mark Dimaisip’s queer confessionals.
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‘June fourth? I wasn’t anywhere. I was driving through the countryside, red dirt and blood in my mouth.’—a short story by Derick Chan.
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‘Rich in otherworlds and forged in equatorial heatl’—a review of Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural (USA: Radix, 2025) by Marie La Viña.
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In his review of Theophilus Kwek’s Commonwealth, Yap Hao Yang surveys the lay of the land in the poetry collection and finds it wanting.
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“A moth wants a lamp without becoming it.” Two poems on redefining desire by Michelle Chen.
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This March, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews tales from five trans writers of Asia.
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“You are a waste of good fortune,” I spit in Mandarin. “Through no effort of your own, you are an American.”–a short story by Alice Stephens.
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“The gold in a nugget is more precious than any artwork made up of pure gold because it has soil in it,” a new essay by Jeyamohan—what to expect from the Living Tamil Literature Festival, to be held in New York City, on April 3 and 4, 2026.
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