Suspect Blog — Singapore Unbound

What is our remedy when the law is broken beyond repair? In this provocative essay, Alicia Izharuddin looks for answers in Southeast Asian revenge films.

EssayJee KohOctober 23, 2026Alicia IzharuddinComment

My Ejecta

‘But it’s not a real name, you know.’––a short story by Nandini Bhattacharya on how certain choices, unwittingly, scar a life.

FictionJee KohOctober 23, 2026Nandini BhattacharyaComment

Drown Ground Crown

‘The truest, most vivid sketch of non-performative unconditional love’—Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Susanna Kwan’s Awake in the Floating City (New York: Pantheon, 2025).

ReviewJee KohOctober 16, 2026Ashley Marilynne WongComment

Tragedy of the Commons

“Last names come first in Japanese, you racist piece of—” a brawl, a funeral, and a stolen father in a short story by Jay Lindstrom.

FictionJee KohOctober 9, 2026Jay Lindstrom Comment

Over Fragmented Waters

'The sky is blue over there, across the world, while it is still dark over here'—a mother's desire stretches beyond the ocean in a short story by Bee Lazar.

FictionJee KohOctober 2, 2026Bee LazarComment

#YISHREADS September 2026

‘A snapshot of our planet, filled with souls dead and living, crying out that they matter, that their stories must be told.’—this September, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews writers exploring their own pasts.

ReviewJee KohSeptember 25, 2026Ng Yi-ShengComment

Babli’s Home

‘They were kind to educate her, but not enough to let a woman do anything she wanted.’—a short story on the fragility of choice by Mayookh Barua.

FictionJee KohSeptember 25, 2026Mayookh BaruaComment

The Ruins

Amrita De brings us to the twilight of youth in nineties Rajasthan.

FictionJee KohSeptember 18, 2026Amrita DeComment

The end is not to fuck

'Yet a declaration had been made on my behalf, and I did not know how to take it back.'—deconstructing desire in an essay by Amanda Juico Dela Cruz.

EssayJee KohSeptember 11, 2026Amanda Juico Dela Cruz Comment

Blame it on Biscoe

‘Even though everything has been arranged in careful accordance with planetary agendas, everybody agrees this is the worst possible time for a wedding.’—Kashmir, 1947. A short story by Kapil Kachru.

FictionJee KohSeptember 4, 2026Kapil KachruComment

#YISHREADS August 2026

Magical realism and fantasy abound in this month’s column by Ng Yi-Sheng, who shares his line-up of speculative fiction by authors of the Malay diaspora.

ReviewJee KohAugust 28, 2026Ng Yi-ShengComment

Indigenous Realities: Perspectives from Borneo

SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces a new series on Indigenous Realities in Asia with a fieldnote from Sabah, Borneo.

EssayJee KohAugust 28, 2026Sharmini Aphrodite

Winners of the 12th Suspect Poetry Contest

The winning poems of the 12th SUSPECT Poetry Contest offer quiet intimacies, brilliant honesty, and alluring music.

PoetryJee KohAugust 25, 2026Rajendra Prasad Gupta, Anna Leonard, Xiadi ZhaiComment

‘American Dream’ and Other Poems

Though “Christmas is a wish to return only to childhood”, what innocence do children have left? Three poems by Miguel Barretto García.

PoetryJee KohAugust 21, 2026Miguel Barretto GarcíaComment

Review of 'To Save and Destroy'

‘So how can writers of the other rise up to this moment, when the question of who owns the car keys to the narrative matters more than ever?’—Lydia Wei reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s To Save and to Destroy (2025).

ReviewJee KohAugust 14, 2026Lydia WeiComment