How does one square the circle? Yap Hao Yang finds that impossible possibility in his review of Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association.
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To celebrate the Festival of Lights, Ng Yi-Sheng lights up our minds with his takes on five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora.
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“No good comes from dealing with motherfuckers.” The protagonist of Migrantik, by Norman Wilwayco, runs counter to conventional images of the Flipino migrant worker, as reviewer Lara Norgaard finds out.
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26 Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers recommend their favorite reads this year. The Singapore Unbound team has some recommendations for you too.
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What does it feel like when a people free themselves from the chains of colonialism and proclaim their independence? We find out in this new translation by Chang Shi Yen of Usman Awang’s moving story “A Flag Is Lowered.”
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A sharp social message masquerading as a courtly love story, Keris Mas’s first story, translated by Chang Shih Yen here, already showed his political leanings and literary gifts.
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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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