‘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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‘It was enough to see Chinese teenagers spending a Saturday doing a church thing.’–an essay by Celestine Woo on evangelising as a Southern Baptist in California.
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“Yoked with violence”: Chong Jing Gan reviews Boh Beh Zhao, by Cheng Him.
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Tan Yanrong examines aesthetic form and form-defying motherhood in Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Mothersalt (Alice James Books, 2025).
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What consumes us? Three poems by Alison Clara Tan.
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#YISHREADS returns with the theme of sequels, you know, that genre that everyone loves to hate.
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In a short story by Yu Xi, translated by Ng Zheng Wei, a gnawing hunger consumes everything.
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‘Style, tone, and form aren’t just decoration—they’re the architecture of meaning... A plastic chalice cannot hold sacred wine.’ – an essay on meaning-making by Chadawan Yuddhara.
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In Taiwan Travelogue, ‘twinned souls… are at once lost, but also found, in translation.’ A review by Eunice Lim.
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‘But later… we didn’t talk about love. We talk about the land and its people.’ – a short story by Kaushik Ranjan Bora, translated from the Assamese by Aruni Kashyap.
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“Like the man who wears a vest saying negotiator in a hostage situation, I want one that says prioritizer.” Three poems by Satya Dash.
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New year, new column. In this January’s instalment of ‘Felix: The Comics’, Felix Cheong (and his cats) introduces us to four graphic memoirs by women authors.
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