In a post-colonial world shaped by what is and what will be lost, what is there left to celebrate? In Dena Igusti's debut collection Cut Woman, Igusti is overwhelmed by the loss of their people. The loss includes but is not limited to: the deaths of Muslims around the world due to xenophobia and … [Read more...]
Yang Diumpet Rapat-Rapat
March 19, 2023 by
After a snake bit his lover dead in a small village in the Maluku Islands in the mid-nineteenth century, Boki Nia decided to live in seclusion deep in the forest, alone, until death took him. He spends the rest of his life passing the time by constructing a tower before the Hener Falls. After … [Read more...]
Brother Poem
March 18, 2023 by
A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG 4 million years ago, a tiny branch in the multiverse led to the formation of Brother Poem, a book from a dimension uncannily like our own but intuited through signs, whispers, glitches, and echoes, … [Read more...]
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
March 18, 2023 by
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of … [Read more...]
