Brace yourself for a thrilling ride when Ng Yi-Sheng hops on the crime thriller train.
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How different are we from the insects we admire and kill? Eric Abalajon translates three poems by the Filipino poet Jhio Jan Navarro.
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In the new story “Moonlit Lake,” by Neo Xin Yuan, the ethnically Chinese narrator joins a special Singaporean school for the advanced study of Chinese language and culture and discovers a realm of differences.
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In their review of The Box, an unusual novel by Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Eileen Ying looks for the seams between narrative and theory.
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Like “the signpost that un-alives a robber”, the dangerous side of language is on full display in Nnadi Samuel’s stunning poems about power, land, pain, and Indigenous lineage.
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How far would we go for social justice, and how would that youthful self be viewed afterwards? Lillian Tsay reflects on her involvement in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement in her essay “The Era I Had Loved.”
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“In Southeast Asia, poetry is power.” Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five recent collections of Southeast Asian poetry.
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A.C.S. Bird explores the many aspects of concealment and revelation in the poetry of Rooja Mohassessy.
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What does one do with one’s loneliness? Ratu Yousei finds an answer in this tender story.
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Reviewer Samara Choudhury discovers the Bene Israel community in India through Zilka Joseph’s poetry collection Sweet Malida.
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In this poignant essay, Monisha Raman finds her way in the maze of grief by walking.
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Read and listen to the winners of our 10th Singapore Poetry Contest!
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Judith Huang reviews Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, by Tania De Rozario (USA: HarperCollins, 2024).
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He is so sure, and she is full of doubts, in this new story, “Chiak Kantang,” by Emilia Ong.
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With this set of three watery poems, Jessie Raymundo meditates on what it means to return—to a place, a loved one, or a promise.
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For this month’s column, Ng Yi-Sheng explores the short story from different parts of the world.
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According to reviewer Suhasini Patni, Usha Priyamvada’s novel Won’t You Stay, Radhika?, translated by Daisy Rockwell, “opens the possibility of inhabiting multiple lives and feeling unhappy in all of them.”
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Can we bear to consume beauty in a world seemingly intent on consuming it too? Ananya Shah shows us how she makes peace with her dead.
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Ann Ang reviews Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore by Cheryl Naruse (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2023).
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To celebrate Pride month, let’s speculate about queer Asian futures with Ng Yi-Sheng as our guide.
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