SUSPECT Journal

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NEW FROM SUSPECT: In this story by Amrita Mukherjee, “Chained to Reality,” three women, from Mauritania, India, and Dubai, discover their intertwined fates. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: What is it like to fall in love with someone you shouldn’t? Find out in this debut publication by Emily Perera.  singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: “I’m going to rob the jewellery store with help from my motorbike, Cortázar. T minus 24 hours.” Read an excerpt from this futuristic crime thriller by Sabda Armandio, translated from the Indonesian by Lara Norgaard. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

We're excited to announce SUSPECT Journal's open call for our Malay Translation Portfolio: Succession Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023 Payment: USD100.00 Read more: singaporeunbound.org/opp/succession…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: For National Poetry Month, Ng Yi-Sheng rambles through his eclectic library for poetry from different times and places. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: In these three new poems, Miguel Barretto Garcia meditates wryly and agonizingly on masculinity and sexuality, and the penetrating influence of parents on both. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: Sceptical and loving, these three poems by Faiz Ahmad inquire into the nature of constancy and change. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: Is it a chapbook or a map? Or both? Haunting work by Hamid Roslan.  singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: How does a family cope, economically and socially, with the loss of employment? In this moving story by Norie Suzuki, a daughter looks back at a precarious time in her family’s past. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: #YISHREADS March 2023 For Women’s History Month (March), Ng Yi-Sheng trains his focus on women readers. And men should read these books too. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: Why are so many powerful people such assholes? Kirsten Han reviews Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas for some answers from political science. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: In their review of Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling, Jack Xi shows that Tran’s project is “not to write about survival as purely triumphant or as an ending they have already reached but rather to reflect their real, ongoing journey.” singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: “I have swords in my mouth,” proclaims debut poet Teddy Jericho Cheng, and in these two poems, they answer why. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: What is the sea? Nicola Sebastian, a writer, surfer, and National Geogprahic Explorer, asks. The answers are both terrifying and consoling. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: Island End On the Floating Home of the Lost, Mama wishes to speak to Singa and Merlion, with unexpected results. A new story by Kevin Martens Wong. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: In response to N. K. Jemisin’s question “How Long ‘til Black Future Month?” Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five vital works of Black/African speculative fiction.  singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: Vice-royal-ties by Julia Wong Kcomt, translated by Jennifer Shyue, works against the annihilation and dilution of human experience, as reviewer Niccolo Rocamora Vitug discovers. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: In Ayesha Khan’s new story, “A Handful of Land,” a very strange child is born to a village.  singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…

NEW FROM SUSPECT: A Thing About Light If we think about the light, what shapes will it assume? A new lyrical essay by Purbasha Roy. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journa…