In her review of Ann Ang’s Burning Walls for Paper Spirits (Singapore: Pagesetters, 2021), Mia Ayumi Malhotra appraises the poetry collection and its delicate still-life sketches of construction scaffolding, potted pandans, and laundry-strung balconies.
Read MoreTo start off the year right, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five mind-expanding works of non-fiction prose.
Read More“Curled up in bed reading this collection, I imagined that I was attending a Kitty Party and that each of these writers were speaking in a circle with each other, sharing laughter and pain and commiseration.”—Miranda Jeyaretnam on What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (Edited by Shailey Hingorani and Varsha Sivaram; Singapore: Association of Women for Action and Research, 2022)
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreIn her review of Vital Signs by Amlanjyoti Goswami (India: Poetrywala, 2022), Samantha Neugebauer takes the measure of the poet’s history of larking.
Read MoreElise J. Choi reviews Babel, or The Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (USA: Harper Voyager, 2022).
Read MoreLooking for holiday gifts? What about traditional folktales from India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore? Ng Yi-Sheng has some ideas for you.
Read MoreJiaqi Kang reviews Pearls from Their Mouth by Pear Nuallak (UK: Hajar Press, 2022).
Read MoreFor Halloween, Ng Yi-Sheng investigates speculative literary takes on the paranormal from four continents.
Read MoreLydia Wei reviews Anything but Human by Daryl Lim Wei Jie (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2021).
Read MoreGround-breaking in their time, but are these Southeast Asian books good reads? This month, Ng Yi-Sheng gives the low-down, and one thumbs-up.
Read More“I wanted to live to tree time.” Shalini Sengupta reviews How I Became a Tree (India: Aleph Books, 2017) and VIP: Very Important Plant (London: Shearsman, 2022) by Sumana Roy.
Read MoreMiranda Jeyaretnam reviews Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering by Constance Singam, which tells the history of Singapore from the perspective of a courageous woman activist.
Read MoreCare to read fantasy and science fiction novels inspired by Chinese history? Ng Yi-Sheng gives you the lowdown on five recent books.
Read More“To what extent should Singlit speak to global cultures and the threat of the climate crisis, and how should it do so?” Zining Mok reviews Red Earth by Esther Vincent Xueming (USA: Blue Cactus Press, 2021).
Read MoreTo impose a bit of sanity on himself, Ng Yi-Sheng returns this month to the original theme of #YISHREADS. These five books are all Southeast Asian works.
Read MoreAnnina Zheng-Hardy reviews Notes from the Birth Year by Mia Ayumi Malhotra (USA: Bateau Press, 2022).
Read MoreElise J. Choi reviews Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (US: Penguin Press, 2022).
Read MoreFor the month of June, Ng Yi-Sheng casts his gaze upon the wide, wonderful world of global speculative writing.
Read MoreDiane Josefowicz reviews Lurkers, the second novel by writer-director Sandi Tan.
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