What is the sea? Nicola Sebastian, a writer, surfer, and National Geographic Explorer, asks. The answers are both terrifying and consoling.
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In response to N. K. Jemisin’s question “How Long ‘til Black Future Month?” Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five vital works of Black/African speculative fiction.
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On the Floating Home of the Lost, Mama wishes to speak to Singa and Merlion, with unexpected results. A new story by Kevin Martens Wong.
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Vice-royal-ties by Julia Wong Kcomt, translated by Jennifer Shyue, works against the annihilation and dilution of human experience, as reviewer Niccolo Rocamora Vitug discovers.
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In Ayesha Khan’s new story, “A Handful of Land,” a very strange child is born to a village.
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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.
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If we think about the light, what shapes will it assume? A new lyrical essay by Purbasha Roy.
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To start off the year right, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five mind-expanding works of non-fiction prose.
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In this new essay, Jasmine Gui examines the myth of the successful diasporic Asian artist in her own life.
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In 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.
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We 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.
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Where 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.
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The 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.
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Elise J. Choi reviews Babel, or The Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (USA: Harper Voyager, 2022).
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One 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.
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Looking for holiday gifts? What about traditional folktales from India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore? Ng Yi-Sheng has some ideas for you.
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One 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.”
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