A. K. Kulshreshth homes in on the wheeling and dealing to stay on the right side of history in his sharp depiction of an unlikeable protagonist. The man is fictional, but how can one tell amidst the “lies, half-lies, truths, and half-truths”?
Read MoreIn this moving story, Faith Ho imagines the tumultuous events of the 50s from the perspective of Wong Chui Wan. Much more than Lim Chin Siong’s wife, Wong was an activist and a trade unionist at a time when “they [were] writing themselves into being.”
Read MoreA month of graphic novels? Glorious. Ng Yi-Sheng is our guide to the tragic, the fantastic, and the pandemic.
Read MoreWhat are these ghost orchids in Ismim Putera’s new story “Bunga”? Are they even orchids or not?
Read MoreFrom salt to frozen yogurt, Valerie Eng takes us through a jumbled journey of flavors—equal parts liquid and sharp, joyful and grieving.
Read MoreIn this new story by Devanshi Khetarpal, an unsettling neighbor gets under the skin.
Read MoreDo objects give off an aura? What about texts about objects? This playful new story by Glenn Diaz, featuring a weary encyclopedist, questions the credentials of literature.
Read MoreSuccess and scandal makes this month a good time for global speculative fiction, according to Ng Yi-Sheng.
Read MoreWhat else can a miscarriage bring but pain to a woman in a traditional marriage in Bangladesh? Find out in this new story by Sohana Manzoor.
Read MoreWith these three poems, Anuradha VIjayakrishnan attends to distance, belonging, and endings, showing how life endures even in the most hostile spaces.
Read MoreWhat does letting go mean in the future? Shalini Ajay Singh attempts an answer in this new work of speculative fiction.
Read MoreEunice Lim reviews Gardens at Phoenix Park, by Wong Souk Yee, and finds subversive verve in its blurring of the boundary between fact and fiction.
Read MoreWhat is this story “Doctor Pollux Lacoste,” by Atty Nicias J Alameda? Is it a parable, a satire, or a prophecy?
Read MoreFor Black History Month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes a look at the many genres that contemporary Black authors write in.
Read More“The sea wind has upset the soil.” With great delicacy, Maggie Wang interlaces personal and domestic concerns with ecological troubles.
Read MoreIn her review of Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz, Annina Zheng-Hardy finds slippages and obsessions and, yes, beauty.
Read MoreIn her review of How Far the Light Reaches, by Sabrina Imbler, Zining Mok examines the author’s braiding of the lives of humans and sea creatures in ten essays.
Read MoreIn the spirit of State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, edited by Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, we offer two reviews of this anthology of conversations, this one by Theophilus Kwek, another by Rona Luo, in order to put them in conversation with each other as well.
Read MoreIn the spirit of State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, edited by Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, we offer two reviews of this anthology of conversations, this one by Rona Luo, another by Theophilus Kwek, in order to put them in conversation with each other as well.
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