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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Eunice Lim reviews Yellowface, a novel by R. F. Kuang.
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Apollos Michio reviews Missed Connections: Microfiction from Asia, edited by Felix Cheong and Noelle Q. de Jesus.
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Brace yourself for a thrilling ride when Ng Yi-Sheng hops on the crime thriller train.
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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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“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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Reviewer Samara Choudhury discovers the Bene Israel community in India through Zilka Joseph’s poetry collection Sweet Malida.
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Judith Huang reviews Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, by Tania De Rozario (USA: HarperCollins, 2024).
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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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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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Anna Tan reviews Bone Weight and Other Stories, by Shih-Li Kow, and finds the stories in the collection weighted down by losses familiar to Malaysians.
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Read some creative non-fiction by Southeast Asian authors or about Southeast Asia lately? Ng Yi-Sheng recommends five titles to peruse.
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In his review of A Tinderbox in Three Acts, by Cynthia Dewi Oka, Ho Kin Yunn finds a poetics that confronts mass horrors and implicates all of us.
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A month of graphic novels? Glorious. Ng Yi-Sheng is our guide to the tragic, the fantastic, and the pandemic.
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