A month of graphic novels? Glorious. Ng Yi-Sheng is our guide to the tragic, the fantastic, and the pandemic.
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Success and scandal makes this month a good time for global speculative fiction, according to Ng Yi-Sheng.
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For Black History Month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes a look at the many genres that contemporary Black authors write in.
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Ng Yi-Sheng reads the literature of indigenous peoples and discovers that his bookshelf is entangled with the non-indigenous voices of allies, anthropologists, authors or informants.
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Traveling over the holidays? Ng Yi-Sheng has a few meta, or not-so-meta, suggestions for you.
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To celebrate the Festival of Lights, Ng Yi-Sheng lights up our minds with his takes on five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora.
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What creature did Sang Nila Utama actually see on the island? The story “Schizosinga,” by Hassan Hasaa’ree Ali, translated by Ng Yi-Sheng, provides a different answer.
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Looking for a Halloween costume? Ng Yi-Sheng offers several scary ideas from Asia.
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month in the US, Ng Yi-Sheng offers a delectable selection of titles from different nations, time periods, and genres.
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Ng Yi-Sheng honors Good Elders and Younger Brothers in this roll-call of books about spirits and spirituality in the modern world.
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On the menu this month: rojak! Ng Yi-Sheng reviews a collection of randomly themed prose fiction works that caught his interest.
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Bad gays, old gays, crocodile lesbians, the third sex—Ng Yi-Sheng reviews and reveals the diverse, complex, and multifaceted project that is queerness.
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For the month of May, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five works of Southeast Asian speculative fiction that reflect, as he puts it, “the region’s historical fascination with heroes and horrors, plus our happy habit of borrowing from other cultures, whether they’re Indian epics or the tropes of the powers that colonised us.”
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For National Poetry Month, Ng Yi-Sheng rambles through his eclectic library for poetry from different times and places.
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For Women’s History Month (March), Ng Yi-Sheng trains his focus on women readers. And men should read these books too.
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In response to N. K. Jemisin’s question “How Long ‘til Black Future Month?” Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five vital works of Black/African speculative fiction.
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To start off the year right, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five mind-expanding works of non-fiction prose.
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We can’t do it better than Ng Yi-Sheng, who wants you to don now with him your omnisexual apparel and troll some ancient pantheistic carols.
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One of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Katherine Enright’s essay analyzes Ng Yi-Sheng’s short story “Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist” as a subversion of the conventions of Victorian plant fiction and of the orchid as a Singaporean national symbol.
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Looking for holiday gifts? What about traditional folktales from India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore? Ng Yi-Sheng has some ideas for you.
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