In this month’s instalment of #YISHREADS Bookstagrammer Ng Yi-Sheng digs into a bunch of classic Asian literature of the early to mid-20th century.
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In these poems, Kuching-born, Cantonese American poet Daniel W.K. Lee explores the fraught spaces of sex apps, hanging gardens, and department stores.
Read MoreIn this story “Mi Hermana, El Tierra” by Sigrid Marianne Gayangos, the beauty of Zamboanga, in southern Philippines, is intermingled with the memories of an unconventional sister.
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Is Israel/Palestine a part of Asia? We think so. Here’s a story, “Samira,” by Atar Hadari.
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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.
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Kevin Tsai reviews In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century by Wong May (UK: Carcanet, 2022).
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Lim Xin Hwee reviews Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman and weighs the challenges of writing about bipolar disorder.
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In this story by Jiaqi Kang, Jiujiu has some unusual pockmarks on his arm.
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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.
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Lim Xin Hwee examines the paradoxes of survival in “Acts of Self Consumption” by Ally Chua.
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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.
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Diane Josefowicz reviews Bibliolepsy: A Novel by Gina Apostol (USA: Soho Press, January 2022).
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From Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, one poem and two translations of Nima Youshij from Farsi to English.
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Who is the jinn in this allegorical yet terrifyingly realistic story by Rahad Abir?
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Aileen Liang reviews Kelly Kaur’s Letters to Singapore (Canada: Stonehouse Publishing, 2022).
Read MoreSebastian Taylor reviews A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and edited by Ng Yi-Sheng (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2021)
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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.
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An essay by Rachel Kuanneng Lee about a sister's suicide and how to write about it.
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ila explores through writing and photography the local spiritualities in Singapore.
Read MorePitamber Kaushik translates 5 Bhojpuri poems by Avinash Chandra Vidyarthi, Awadhendra dev Narayan, and Aniruddh into English.
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