Samira

Is Israel/Palestine a part of Asia? We think so. Here’s a story, “Samira,” by Atar Hadari.

FictionJee KohMay 6, 2022Atar HadariComment

#YISHREADS April 2022

In this monthly series #YISHREADS, Bookstagrammer Ng Yi-Sheng provides capsule reviews of his current obsessions and curiosities in the wide world of Southeast Asian literature.

ReviewJee KohApril 29, 2022Ng Yi-Sheng, Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Danny Jalil, Jit Murad, Tom Boellstorff, James C. ScottComment

In Her Light

Kevin Tsai reviews In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century by Wong May (UK: Carcanet, 2022).

ReviewJee KohApril 29, 2022Kevin Tsai, Wong MayComment

Firegrief

Lim Xin Hwee reviews Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman and weighs the challenges of writing about bipolar disorder.

ReviewJee KohApril 22, 2022LIM Xin Hwee, Shira Erlichman, Alice James BooksComment

Uncle’s house; it was noon

In this story by Jiaqi Kang, Jiujiu has some unusual pockmarks on his arm.

FictionJee KohApril 15, 2022Jiaqi KangComment

Fog of January

Shelley Fairweather-Vega and Katherine E. Young translate poems by Oral Arukenova, Anastasiya Belousova, Asel Omar, Kanat Omar, Ramil Niyazov-Adyldzhyan, and Irina Gumyrkina, which respond urgently to the January 2022 protests and their aftermath in Kazakhstan.

Lunch Break – “Acts of Self Consumption”

Lim Xin Hwee examines the paradoxes of survival in “Acts of Self Consumption” by Ally Chua.

PoetryJee KohApril 1, 2022Lim Xin Hwee, Ally ChuaComment

#YISHREADS March 2022

In this monthly series #YISHREADS, Bookstagrammer Ng Yi-Sheng provides capsule reviews of his current obsessions and curiosities in the wide world of Southeast Asian literature.

ReviewJee KohMarch 25, 2022Ng Yi-Sheng, Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Danny Jalil, Jit Murad, Tom Boellstorff, James C. ScottComment

A Reckoning with Reading

Diane Josefowicz reviews Bibliolepsy: A Novel by Gina Apostol (USA: Soho Press, January 2022).

ReviewJee KohMarch 25, 2022Diane JosefowiczComment

Moe’s Skin pt II

From Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, one poem and two translations of Nima Youshij from Farsi to English.

PoetryJee KohMarch 18, 2022Khashayar Mohammadi, Nima YoushijComment

Beauty and the Jinn

Who is the jinn in this allegorical yet terrifyingly realistic story by Rahad Abir?

FictionJee KohMarch 11, 2022Rahad AbirComment

Love Letters to Singaporean Women

Aileen Liang reviews Kelly Kaur’s Letters to Singapore (Canada: Stonehouse Publishing, 2022).

ReviewJee KohMarch 4, 2022Aileen Liang, Kelly Kaur, Stonehouse PublishingComment

A Mosque in the Jungle

Sebastian Taylor reviews A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and edited by Ng Yi-Sheng (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2021)

Review, FictionJee KohFebruary 22, 2022Epigram Books, Ng Yi-Sheng, Sebastian Taylor, SUSPECTComment

My Story

In “My Story,” Burmese rights advocate Ningja Khon relates how she ran afoul of the Myanmar’s military junta and had to escape the country to southern Thailand before ending up in the US.

Essay, Witness WritingJee KohFebruary 22, 2022Ningja KhonComment

I am waiting for an apology.

An essay by Rachel Kuanneng Lee about a sister's suicide and how to write about it.

PoetryJee KohFebruary 22, 2022Rachel Kuanneng LeeComment

Tunggu Dulu

ila explores through writing and photography the local spiritualities in Singapore.

EssayJee KohFebruary 22, 2022ila, SUSPECTComment

The Boat Unmoors, O Oarsman

Pitamber Kaushik translates 5 Bhojpuri poems by Avinash Chandra Vidyarthi, Awadhendra dev Narayan, and Aniruddh into English.

PoetryJee KohFebruary 22, 2022Aakanksha Dwivedi, Pitamber Kaushik, Aniruddh, SUSPECTComment

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