To 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.
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Annina Zheng-Hardy reviews Notes from the Birth Year by Mia Ayumi Malhotra (USA: Bateau Press, 2022).
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Elise J. Choi reviews Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (US: Penguin Press, 2022).
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We’re very pleased to announce the results of the 8th annual Singapore Poetry Contest. Enjoy the winning poems!
Read MoreAmanat is a groundbreaking anthology featuring the stories of women writers from Kazakhstan over the past thirty years.
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Lim Xin Hwee examines the lingering effects of colonialism in “S.A.M.” by Singaporean poet Ann Ang.
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For the month of June, Ng Yi-Sheng casts his gaze upon the wide, wonderful world of global speculative writing.
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In this interview, poet Ayesha Raees speaks about the diverse places that poetry can go.
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Diane Josefowicz reviews Lurkers, the second novel by writer-director Sandi Tan.
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In this story “What It Wants,” by Minxi Chua, Xinyi is overworked and completely stressed out, but that is not her biggest problem.
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In the story “A Fair Share,” Shahriar Shaams develops the prickly themes of parenthood and inheritance.
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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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