LIKE A FEVER

Essays

Making Stock, Taking Stock

Nereya Otieno shares her recipe for homemade chicken stock, while ruminating on the alchemical nature of time

Paranoiac Time, Desynchronic Time

TJ Shin examines “paranoiac time” (and possibilities for its rupture) in the context of the Cold War and the neoliberal present

Art Criticism in the Middle of the Night

Lee Weng Choy considers the distance between us, while ruminating on reading, writing, and region

In Beats of Uncertainty

Jihyun Paik follows a reverberation through quantum mechanics, experimental video art, the palpable language of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more

Conversations

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Aligning with Desire

Hà Đào and Jennifer Yang on leaving an imprint, and sustaining photographic and archival practices in Vietnam

What Sickness You Can Live With

Trisha Low, Hay, and tshirt speak with us on feeling their way through worlds, proximal intimacies, and writing both in and about fandom

From K-pop Fan to Translator: In Conversation with Shanna Tan

Shanna Tan discusses Korean healing fiction, the translation scene in Singapore, and the dream of starting her own bookstore

Gambles Against Time

Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive

Poetry & Fiction

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Central Incisor

Jocelin Kee explores the relationships that surround a place, and what it means to care for objects

Lateral Incisor

Jocelin Kee illustrates the everyday upkeep of a strange museum

Night Work

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross introspects on writing, belief, and motherhood during a night walk

Elsewhere

Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries

Notes

Dispatches, briefs, experiments, research reports, image galleries, travelogues, and more

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BLOODHOUNDS MANIFESTO

Sam Chan and Paul C. Fermin keep their hands up and chin down

Temporal Text

Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations

3SUMS | what keeps you awake?

Minh Nguyen, Carlos Quijon, Jr., and Sharon Lee discuss private infernos, birdsongs, and the fluttering of a moth

3SUMS | what's your refuge?

Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong

Series

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The Stakes of Naming

A series that asks an array of writers and artists what they need to say to live

out of focus

A series exploring ways to traverse the fog of unknowingness

And We Begin Again

Writing from a year-long reading group on community, translation, and getting unstuck

3SUMS

An illustrated interview series that explores our affective x material x libidinal drives