In this review, Ally Chua describes how grief and elements of the fantastical fuel Lydia Kwa’s 2024 poetry collection from time to new.
Read MoreThis month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a tour of SFF writing from Brunei to Singapore.
Read MoreOlivia Ho reviews The Enigmatic Madam Ingram by Meihan Boey (Singapore: Epigram, 2023) and Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (New York: Ecco Books, 2024).
Read MoreAshley Marilynne Wong reviews “Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity and Joy,” by Simon Wu (New York: Harper, 2024).
Read MoreAshley Marilynne Wong reviews Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter
Read MoreThis National Day month, Ng Yi-Sheng considers works from Malaysian writers in Singapore.
Read MoreSUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces our latest portfolio on maritime Southeast Asia.
Read MoreSoutheast Asian monsters, unfaithful translations, and more – this July, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews short story collections from Hong Kong to the Filipino diaspora.
Read MoreThis Pride month, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five queer comic titles bringing readers from the Philippines to Indonesia, Japan to Singapore, and to the USA.
Read MorePlunge into poetry this May with as Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five collections from Asian writers.
Read MoreAnna Tan reviews the fantasy novel These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low.
Read MoreAmidst a season of renewal this April, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a journey through the literature of mainland Southeast Asia.
Read MoreTaylor Taeyeon Song reviews Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreOn the cusp of the Year of the Snake, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five works of speculative fiction that trace the journeys of the Chinese diaspora from Singapore to Canada.
Read MoreThe violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.
Read MoreAs the new year beckons, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five books, whose topics range from the genocide in Palestine to the Sino-Japanese War in Chungking, that remind us of the moral necessity of hope.
Read MoreAshley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.
Read MoreFor 2024, SUSPECT’s My Book of the Year features recommendations from 28 writers, artists, scholars, and thinkers, who share the reads that have stuck with them this year.
Read MoreEunice Lim reviews A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa (Hamilton, Ontario: Buckrider Books, 2023).
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