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 MoreIf we think about the light, what shapes will it assume? A new lyrical essay by Purbasha Roy.
Read MoreTo start off the year right, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five mind-expanding works of non-fiction prose.
Read MoreIn this new essay, Jasmine Gui examines the myth of the successful diasporic Asian artist in her own life.
Read MoreIn this new story “IDOL,” by Lisabelle Tay, the eponymous protagonist weighs the costs of fame and dreams of something better.
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 More“When one sees at a distance a coffin with the corpse in it/ he should not sing.” In these two poems, Thomas Mar Wee mourns and sings according to the Book of Rites.
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 MoreWhere does a man go, in his mind and in his body, after the death of his father? In the story “A Death,” Ali Hatami traces with a keen sensitivity the thoughts and actions of such a man.
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 MoreThe successor to SP Blog, SUSPECT is pleased to present yet another round-up of the year’s favorite reads, recommended by Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers.
Read MoreElise J. Choi reviews Babel, or The Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (USA: Harper Voyager, 2022).
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Katherine Enright’s essay analyzes Ng Yi-Sheng’s short story “Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist” as a subversion of the conventions of Victorian plant fiction and of the orchid as a Singaporean national symbol.
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 MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Quek Yee Kiat’s paper is a study of selected rewritings of myths in Singapore and their re-significations, encompassing two interconnecting themes––“Fearless Females” and “Queering Hybrids.”
Read MoreOne 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.
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