Success and scandal makes this month a good time for global speculative fiction, according to Ng Yi-Sheng.
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Eunice Lim reviews Gardens at Phoenix Park, by Wong Souk Yee, and finds subversive verve in its blurring of the boundary between fact and fiction.
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For Black History Month, Ng Yi-Sheng takes a look at the many genres that contemporary Black authors write in.
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In her review of Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz, Annina Zheng-Hardy finds slippages and obsessions and, yes, beauty.
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In her review of How Far the Light Reaches, by Sabrina Imbler, Zining Mok examines the author’s braiding of the lives of humans and sea creatures in ten essays.
Read MoreIn the spirit of State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, edited by Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, we offer two reviews of this anthology of conversations, this one by Theophilus Kwek, another by Rona Luo, in order to put them in conversation with each other as well.
Read MoreIn the spirit of State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, edited by Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, we offer two reviews of this anthology of conversations, this one by Rona Luo, another by Theophilus Kwek, in order to put them in conversation with each other as well.
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Ng Yi-Sheng reads the literature of indigenous peoples and discovers that his bookshelf is entangled with the non-indigenous voices of allies, anthropologists, authors or informants.
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Traveling over the holidays? Ng Yi-Sheng has a few meta, or not-so-meta, suggestions for you.
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How does one square the circle? Yap Hao Yang finds that impossible possibility in his review of Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association.
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To celebrate the Festival of Lights, Ng Yi-Sheng lights up our minds with his takes on five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora.
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“No good comes from dealing with motherfuckers.” The protagonist of Migrantik, by Norman Wilwayco, runs counter to conventional images of the Flipino migrant worker, as reviewer Lara Norgaard finds out.
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26 Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers recommend their favorite reads this year. The Singapore Unbound team has some recommendations for you too.
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Looking for a Halloween costume? Ng Yi-Sheng offers several scary ideas from Asia.
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Diane Josefowicz reviews The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, by Augusto Higa Oshiro, translated by Jennifer Shyue, a novel about a descendant of Japanese immigrants to Peru.
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Lydia Wei reviews Dear Bear, by Ae Hee Lee (UK: Platypus Press, 2021), and discovers a world characterized simultaneously by blossom and apocalypse.
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month in the US, Ng Yi-Sheng offers a delectable selection of titles from different nations, time periods, and genres.
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Branden Zavaleta explains the method in the madness of the anime film "Paprika.”
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Eschewing the merely personal in his poetry, Shangyang Fang explores new possibilities in Burying the Mountain, as Kendrick Loo delineates in his review.
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In Esther Yi’s novel Y/N, the author blurs the line between fiction and fanfiction, as Elise J. Choi explains in her review.
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