Ghosts from Underground Love

Laura Nys writes about young women exchanging love letters in a juvenile reformatory, and how the dilemma between privacy protection and rendering visibility is addressed by the art of Lam Wong

On Transcription

Samira Bose examines the figure of the transcriber through the TV show Mindhunter, Lacan’s stenotypist, and her own experiences in magazines and archives

The More Loving One

Jimin Kang on translation as a protracted, recurring, and painful process comparable to love

A Pedagogy of Unwellness

Mimi Khúc interrogates the myth of meritocracy, ableism in the academy, and mental health's insistence on wellness

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

The Scream and the Whisper

Yaniya Lee speaks with two friends about language and power, Blackness and signification, and strategising ways of being

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

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

The Stakes of Naming

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

Afterlives

A series exploring the politics of translation

And We Begin Again

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

out of focus

A series exploring ways to traverse the fog of unknowingness