“[One] can almost taste the iron of blood in their throat.” Hannah Chia reviews the poetry collection Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin.
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In this review, Ally Chua describes how grief and elements of the fantastical fuel Lydia Kwa’s 2024 poetry collection from time to new.
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This month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a tour of SFF writing from Brunei to Singapore.
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Olivia Ho reviews The Enigmatic Madam Ingram by Meihan Boey (Singapore: Epigram, 2023) and Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (New York: Ecco Books, 2024).
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews “Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity and Joy,” by Simon Wu (New York: Harper, 2024).
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter
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This National Day month, Ng Yi-Sheng considers works from Malaysian writers in Singapore.
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SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces our latest portfolio on maritime Southeast Asia.
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Southeast Asian monsters, unfaithful translations, and more – this July, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews short story collections from Hong Kong to the Filipino diaspora.
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This Pride month, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five queer comic titles bringing readers from the Philippines to Indonesia, Japan to Singapore, and to the USA.
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Plunge into poetry this May with as Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five collections from Asian writers.
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Anna Tan reviews the fantasy novel These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low.
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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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Taylor Taeyeon Song reviews Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella.
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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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On 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.
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The violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.
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As 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.
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.
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For 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.
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