A constructed homeland falls apart and is pieced together again in a story by Jack Wolflink.
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Plunge into poetry this May with as Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five collections from Asian writers.
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A short story by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray that bubbles with kaypoh aunties and the persistence of being kiasi.
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From Northern Ireland to Pakistan to Cambridge, Ali Abbas weaves a love story that pierces through time.
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Voice, longing, language, and sisterhood collide in an essay by Shumin Tan.
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Anna Tan reviews the fantasy novel These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low.
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What do you do with a debt that takes lifetimes to repay? A short story by E. P. Tuazon.
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Thea Liu brings us on a moonlit journey in this short story that weaves between the lyric and the lucid.
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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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