Suspect Blog — Singapore Unbound

Watching Pro-Ball with My Mom after Surgery

“Despite the aftermath, I seem fine.” Two poems on family and disability by Leigh Sugar for Suspect’s ‘Crip Time’ portfolio.

PoetryJee KohNovember 13, 2026Crip Time, Leigh SugarComment

I place nine offerings at the altar of my halmoni

For Crip Time, Christina Lee writes movingly about her late grandmother and the forces which shape disabled lives.

EssayJee KohNovember 13, 2026Christina Lee, Crip TimeComment

the summer I lay down

“a forest on fire cuts the beetles off at the jaw”. A crip ecology poem by Nisha Patel for Suspect’s “Crip Time” portfolio.

PoetryJee KohNovember 6, 2026Nisha Patel, Crip TimeComment

“Cut into Curbs”: CRIP TIME Editor’s Note

SUSPECT Poetry and poetry reviews editor Jack Xi introduces CRIP TIME, our latest portfolio on disabled lived experience and disability theory.

EssayJee KohNovember 6, 2026Crip Time, Jack XiComment

#YISHREADS October 2026

‘The fantastical to the freaky to the futuristic’—Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five works of Indigenous Futurism to commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

ReviewJee KohOctober 30, 2026Ng Yi-ShengComment

Why Wouldn’t You Want to Play With The Spirits?: An Interview with Anh Vo

Of shamanism, orality, violence, and queerness: an interview with dancer/choreographer Anh Vo, by Ru Marshall.

InterviewJee KohOctober 30, 2026Ru MarshallComment

Catch

‘I want to be somewhere else and not here. I’m not noble. I’m not studying for a better job or for the spirit of learning. Someone has to know the truth.’––a short story by Lin Xin Er.

FictionJee KohOctober 27, 2026Lin Xin ErComment

Wreaking ultion for the broken law

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