What do a pearl, a bell and a dropped pipe tell us about colonial violence? Three poems from Kapil Kachru.

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.

A sharp new story by Christian Yeo interrogates the state of surveillance.

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.

In this essay on the films of Iranian director Alireza Khatami, Robert Hirschfield isolates the qualities and influences that distinguish this body of work.

Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.

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.

Eunice Lim reviews A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa (Hamilton, Ontario: Buckrider Books, 2023).

Kwan Ann Tan reviews Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka, translated by Kalau Almony (United Kingdom: Honford Star, 2024).

Darkly subversive, as appropriate to the times, five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora, reviewed by Ng Yi-Sheng.

Jonathan Chan talks to translator Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng about approaches to translation, notions of ephemerality, and modes of literary relationship.

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.

The miracle of watermelons: what is it? A new story by Vũ Trọng Hiếu.