The body as a vessel of experience. The body out of place. Three visceral poems by Yashasvi Vachhani.
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In this conversation between two women writers, Shawna Yang Ryan discusses artistic influences, autofiction, oral history, and motherhood with Fiona Sze-Lorrain.
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The dangers of looking are ameliorated by the beauty of singing in two new poems by Ashish Kumar Singh, “A Poem on the Nature of Things” and “Me Looking At Him.”
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Bad gays, old gays, crocodile lesbians, the third sex—Ng Yi-Sheng reviews and reveals the diverse, complex, and multifaceted project that is queerness.
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What is gold if it is not a color nor a metal? In this essay Max Pasakorn wonders and wanders into an answer.
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In these two poems, Jake Dennis persuades us a silver streak on our new carpet is a journey, and plumeria cuttings are totems.
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How to solve a murder when you keep forgetting things? Sebastian Taylor reviews The Sleepless, a thrilling work of speculative fiction by Victor Manibo.
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If the sea is allowed to speak, what will it say to us? Genevieve Hartman finds out in reviewing Joanne Leow’s book of poems Seas Move Away.
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In this poetic meditation, Tim Tim Cheng finds death’s accents in a moon elder, a pillar of shame, a fat dick, and a line that keeps closing in.
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To be seen or not to be seen? Christy Ku unravels the tension underlying Chan Li Shan’s unconventional biography of the unconventional Singaporean artist Li Wen.
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For the month of May, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five works of Southeast Asian speculative fiction that reflect, as he puts it, “the region’s historical fascination with heroes and horrors, plus our happy habit of borrowing from other cultures, whether they’re Indian epics or the tropes of the powers that colonised us.”
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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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