As the new year beckons, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five books, whose topics range from the genocide in Palestine to the Sino-Japanese War in Chungking, that remind us of the moral necessity of hope.
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In this essay on the films of Iranian director Alireza Khatami, Robert Hirschfield isolates the qualities and influences that distinguish this body of work.
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Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.
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For 2024, SUSPECT’s My Book of the Year features recommendations from 28 writers, artists, scholars, and thinkers, who share the reads that have stuck with them this year.
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What is it like to be exiled from a colony, tribe, group and to be chained to a false name? Read the new story by Krystalle Teh.
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Eunice Lim reviews A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa (Hamilton, Ontario: Buckrider Books, 2023).
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Kwan Ann Tan reviews Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka, translated by Kalau Almony (United Kingdom: Honford Star, 2024).
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Darkly subversive, as appropriate to the times, five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora, reviewed by Ng Yi-Sheng.
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Jonathan Chan talks to translator Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng about approaches to translation, notions of ephemerality, and modes of literary relationship.
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Does the August Revolution in Bangladesh give cause for hope? Gaudy Boy author Mozid Mamud reflects on the revolution in the light of the country’s history of fissures.
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The miracle of watermelons: what is it? A new story by Vũ Trọng Hiếu.
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Yin F Lim reviews The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian & Singaporean Writing edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva, William Tham.
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In her review of Habitations by Sheila Sundar, Kristin T. Lee calls the fictional work “a subtle showstopper of a novel.”
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What are the living connections between Indonesian and Chilean poetries? Damhuri Muhammad reviews the important binational anthology Para Lavida.
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For the creepy month of October, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews hellish supernatural yarns from Singapore, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Croatia.
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Robert Hirschfield pays an insightful and heartfelt tribute to a haiku master of South India.
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Eunice Lim reviews Yellowface, a novel by R. F. Kuang.
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In his essay about moving from Singapore to Germany, Thow Xin Wei reflects on what it means to learn a new language in order to fit in.
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Hurt, like hammers, can be aimed at the wrong targets. How much can we trust the carpenter? Three new poems from Ally Chua.
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Why does he carry a violin with him everywhere but is so reluctant to play it? An atmospheric new story by Niranjan Kumar Rai.
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