Eschewing the merely personal in his poetry, Shangyang Fang explores new possibilities in Burying the Mountain, as Kendrick Loo delineates in his review.
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In the poems of Shatrughna Pandab, translator Pitamber Naik urges you to hear the voice of the original inhabitants of Odisha, India, who live like strangers in their own land.
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In Esther Yi’s novel Y/N, the author blurs the line between fiction and fanfiction, as Elise J. Choi explains in her review.
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Ng Yi-Sheng honors Good Elders and Younger Brothers in this roll-call of books about spirits and spirituality in the modern world.
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What is it like to give birth in America? What is it like to be praised for speaking good English? Three new poems, by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, find a way out of the bewilderment.
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Does terrorism derive from ‘tierra’, Spanish for land, or ‘err’, Greek for incorrect, or is it close to ‘terremoto’, Spanish for earthquake? Jonathan Chan reviews Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto.
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Announcing the winners of the 9th Singapore Poetry Contest, aka, the snail contest.
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What is the magnetic hold that Hua exercises over Ming after so many years and across such a wide distance? A new story by Yuan Changming.
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On the menu this month: rojak! Ng Yi-Sheng reviews a collection of randomly themed prose fiction works that caught his interest.
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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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