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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month might be over, but that doesn't mean you can't continue to celebrate, read and boost AAPI voices.

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with these activities inspired by traditional games and crafts.

May 25, 2021 Unsplash Is it just us, or has Covid-19 left the world stuck on pause? We don’t just mean the lockdowns that bring society to a standstill – we’re also talking about the second, third, and even fourth waves of the virus that sweep out from nowhere, leaving us holding our breath permanently. If you’re feeling the ‘here we go again’ blues from Singapore’s heightened restrictions, we’ve dedicated this May ‘s curation of novels to limbo in its many aspects – solitude, time loops, and trances galore. Timequake, Kurt Vonnegurt If you’re feeling the ennui creep in...

The award-winning author of ‘Severance’ on ‘Motherhood’, Jamaica Kincaid, and the cooking lesson she got from Toni Morrison.

The Children of Men, from 1992, shows society’s vulnerability ; the clones created in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The 2010 film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Photograph: AP But as a writer of speculative fiction, I never expected to gauge the distance between my novel and the world I was living in. Some things I wrote about, for instance how characters would feel after years of a pandemic, now feel unnerving. I imagined Dawn – a character who rises quickly up the higher ranks of the civil service partly by dint of remaining alive – being excited to travel aga...