‘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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‘A vicarious glimpse [into]... Singapore’s artistic milieu from the millennial generation.’ – Melody Lee reviews Daryl Yam’s Be Your Own Bae.
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse reviews how a city is produced and contested in Angelia Poon’s survey of Anglophone Singapore literature.
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‘It was early January, and the snow had come down that day like an epiphany.’ – an essay by Max J. Nam.
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‘The first clean air came quietly. Felt wrong, almost. Like walking into your house after a funeral.’ – A short story by Ian Mark Ganut.
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Is the immovable “nation/of know” opposed to or running on an unstoppable force? Three poems by Ren Phung.
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This Christmas season, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us to the Middle East.
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This year, 25 writers and thinkers recommend their favourite reads from and about Asia.
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“Blackouts bring us together.” Three poems on civil war by Maung Htike Aung.
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Ling Ling Huang’s Immaculate Conception.
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Excerpt: Shyamasri Maji reviews Shilpi Suneja’s House of Caravans.
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This November, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five literary works that deal with the legacy of HIV.
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‘A stub, a shard—discarded by most, but enough to begin again.’—an essay by Shumin Tan.
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With these three poems, Abuyuan-Llanes shows us the tender passing of time – while “being too young”, while kissing men in clubs, while on highways.
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‘I miss you until I can’t breathe sometimes. It’s nothing new.’–an essay by C. Zhang.
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What is it that “no one wants to explain”? Three poems that echo around the world by Sabyasachi Roy.
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