In this story “Celebrating Eid at Grandmother’s Grave,” by Malaysia’s first National Laureate Keris Mas, translated by Chang Shih Yen, a woman tries to get a red shirt for her child so that he can celebrate Eid like the other children.
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SUSPECT’s Fiction Editor Sharmini Aphrodite introduces the four stories in this first installment of an exciting new project, our Malay Translation Portfolio.
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What creature did Sang Nila Utama actually see on the island? The story “Schizosinga,” by Hassan Hasaa’ree Ali, translated by Ng Yi-Sheng, provides a different answer.
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Looking for a Halloween costume? Ng Yi-Sheng offers several scary ideas from Asia.
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Diane Josefowicz reviews The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, by Augusto Higa Oshiro, translated by Jennifer Shyue, a novel about a descendant of Japanese immigrants to Peru.
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“Without understanding her, you will glance briefly over her CV, over her proposal, over her application letter and reject her.” A new story by Niaz Zaman.
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Lydia Wei reviews Dear Bear, by Ae Hee Lee (UK: Platypus Press, 2021), and discovers a world characterized simultaneously by blossom and apocalypse.
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In the new story "Snow Phoenix," by Ted Serafin, a transplant from Harbin, China, to Singapore finds novel ways to adapt to the tropics.
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month in the US, Ng Yi-Sheng offers a delectable selection of titles from different nations, time periods, and genres.
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“In every cathedral, a man is waiting/ to be ruined.” Three poems by Conan Tan about the life and death, the movement and the stillness, of desire.
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Marylyn Tan’s poem “Queer Bodies” inspires a dramatic response written and directed by Audrey Forman.
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If you could speak with Mr. Sulu, what would you say? What about Anna May Wong? Kathleen Hellen knows what she would say.
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Branden Zavaleta explains the method in the madness of the anime film "Paprika.”
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Kelly Sadikun responds to Marylyn Tan’s poem “Nasi Kang Kang” with a fantastic visualization.
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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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