Review by Alexa Cho Whether in geography textbooks or a Google search, Singapore is often exalted as a country set apart by its technological advancements and high standard of living. However, such a notion is only one perspective of Singapore and not necessarily the most accurate. Author Leanne Dunic draws on experiences from her artist…

Review by Carson Compos There are beautiful bodies buried within Find Me as the Creature I Am. Poet, translator, editor, and professor of Korean literature Emily Jungmin Yoon’s second collection of poetry uncovers connections between death and love and offers dualities of violence and peace to come to the conclusion that, in many ways, we…

The year is 2004. Vietnam is now one, but reverberations of the preceding wars—and its chasms—remain. It is in this year that Thuận opens Elevator in Sài Gòn, her second book translated into English from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý. I have been looking forward to Thuận’s follow up in English since encountering her Anglophone…

Review by Gabriella Contratto Occasionally I come across a book that upends my previously held expectations of how to form a narrative. Alan Michael Parker’s upcoming collection of flash fiction Bingo Bango Boingo (2025) is such a book. The book alternates between stand alone flash fiction, and stories presented as bingo cards. The flash is…