In these moving poems about transphobia, arrests of street protesters, and a missing daughter, Yee Heng Yeh speaks imaginatively and empathetically from the viewpoints of oppressors and victims.
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In this story by Amrita Mukherjee, “Chained to Reality,” three women, from Mauritania, India, and Dubai, discover their intertwined fates.
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What is it like to fall in love with someone you shouldn’t? Find out in this debut publication by Emily Perera.
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“I’m going to rob the jewellery store with help from my motorbike, Cortázar. T minus 24 hours.” Read an excerpt from this futuristic crime thriller by Sabda Armandio, translated from the Indonesian by Lara Norgaard.
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For National Poetry Month, Ng Yi-Sheng rambles through his eclectic library for poetry from different times and places.
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In these three new poems, Miguel Barretto Garcia meditates wryly and agonizingly on masculinity and sexuality, and the penetrating influence of parents on both.
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Sceptical and loving, these three poems by Faiz Ahmad inquire into the nature of constancy and change.
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“The Korean-American individual finds themselves mapped onto a kinship network, through which desires are passed down, misplaced, and only very rarely reconfigured,” in Yoon Choi’s Skinship (US: Vintage Books, 2022), reviewed by Aileen Liang.
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“Where to look after a semblance of you?” Innas Tsuroiya asks in these two sensuous poems and finds answers in the sentient world.
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Is it a chapbook or a map? Or both? Haunting work by Hamid Roslan.
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How does a family cope, economically and socially, with the loss of employment? In this moving story by Norie Suzuki, a daughter looks back at a precarious time in her family’s past.
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For Women’s History Month (March), Ng Yi-Sheng trains his focus on women readers. And men should read these books too.
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Why are so many powerful people such assholes? Kirsten Han reviews Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas for some answers from political science.
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In their review of Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling, Jack Xi shows that Tran’s project is “not to write about survival as purely triumphant or as an ending they have already reached but rather to reflect their real, ongoing journey.”
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“I have swords in my mouth,” proclaims debut poet Teddy Jericho Cheng, and in these two poems, they answer why.
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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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