One of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Timothy Wan’s essay uses Pearl Bank as a focal point to offer a reconsideration of how Singaporeans engage with nostalgia.
Read MoreIn his interview with Janelle Tan, poet Jonathan Chan speaks of the “five foundings” that have shaped his family’s history and his personal poetics.
Read MoreIn this essay on the late Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam, Daryl Lim Wei Jie considers how death acted for the poet as “a catalyst of deeper truths about the exilic migrant condition that he perceived himself to be stranded in – and the broader human condition.”
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 More“You smell like the sun, we say to a person/ carrying the loosened backpack of a long day.” —from “BRUSHING MY TEETH AT THE EDGE OF ELIZABETH PLACE”
Read MoreLydia Wei reviews Anything but Human by Daryl Lim Wei Jie (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2021).
Read MoreThree poems by Sal that play with tropes in NSFW K-pop fanfiction and borrow language from real YouTube comments left on 'focus cams' or jigcams.
Read MoreWas she just a subservient woman although she tried so hard to be self-aware and smart? The unnamed protagonist in Suhasini Patni’s new story “is it a curse or is it the day” wondered.
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 MoreIn “Dear Pluto,” Susan L. Lin writes to the Death Planet about her plans to visit it in the distant future.
Read MoreIn these attentive poems, Jackson Minjoon Wright shines a light on, as he puts it, “the particularities of adoption and secluded life in the Midwest.”
Read MoreIn these exacting poems, Joey S. Kim considers the impact of empire on identity and writing.
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 MoreWhat if dogs can read? Chris Huntington ponders this and other questions in these new poems.
Read More“Singapore's climb from a Third World country to a First World nation was made easier, thanks to the escalator.”
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 More“When you dream, how do you know you’re in your own body?” the narrator of Monica Kim’s story “Dreamlapse” asks.
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