‘Something older, wilder, untainted by the contemporary world order’––dive into epic poetry from the Global South with Ng Yi-Sheng this May.
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‘Rich in otherworlds and forged in equatorial heatl’—a review of Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural (USA: Radix, 2025) by Marie La Viña.
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In his review of Theophilus Kwek’s Commonwealth, Yap Hao Yang surveys the lay of the land in the poetry collection and finds it wanting.
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This March, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews tales from five trans writers of Asia.
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“Yoked with violence”: Chong Jing Gan reviews Boh Beh Zhao, by Cheng Him.
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Tan Yanrong examines aesthetic form and form-defying motherhood in Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Mothersalt (Alice James Books, 2025).
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#YISHREADS returns with the theme of sequels, you know, that genre that everyone loves to hate.
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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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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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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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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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“[Doubt] contains within it a seed of desire, for one can only want what one does not immediately possess.” SUSPECT editor-in-chief Sharmini Aphrodite reviews Jonathan Chan’s bright sorrow.
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Pawangs, babaylans, maa khii, and more—this October, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us through a whirlwind of Southeast Asian esoterica.
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Eunice Lim reviews Vanishing Point: The Comic Book.
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“[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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