What does V. S. Naipaul mean when he describes the Indian way of seeing as defective? Utkarsh Adhrit finds the answer in Naipaul himself in this essay about embarrassment, colonialism, and history.
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The violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.
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With his poems on consumption and fear, Christian Hanz Lozada lays out a powerful three-course meal using ingredients from a caged crocodile, an insulted street food vendor, and a supermarket aisle.
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A relationship with an electric character lands a university student into a startling new world in which the typical rules don't apply, in this story from Michael Balili.
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What do a pearl, a bell and a dropped pipe tell us about colonial violence? Three poems from Kapil Kachru.
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In times of political upheaval, what are we touched – or left untouched – by? Matt Reeck’s translations of Leeladhar Jagoori show us what happens when opposites collide.
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A sharp new story by Christian Yeo interrogates the state of surveillance.
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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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