Overworked Symbols Conceal Gems
Afiza reviews The Merlion and the Hibiscus.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Rubbing Out New Maps
Boey Kim Cheng reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006

A Resounding “Yes”
Shelly Bryant reviews The Lantern and the Night Moths.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

Savvy Choices
Shelly Bryant reviews Daryl Lim's translations of Wang Mun Kiat.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

A Light Touch
Shelly Bryant reviews Wong May.

Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022

Inside a Troubled Mind
Shelly Bryant reviews O Thiam Chin.

Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023

A Novel of Big Ideas
Shelly Bryant reviews Lydia Kwa.

Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024

More Than A Useful Exercise
Shelly Bryant reviews Yeo Wei Wei's renderings of Soon Ai Ling.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

Assuredly Californian and Land-bound
Jonathan Chan reviews Shirley Geok-lin Lim.

Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023

Staring deep into the ink pond
Jonathan Chan reviews Kit Fan.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

Poetry and artmaking out of the ordinary
Jonathan Chan reviews Felix Cheong and Sam Lay.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

Shaping a Critical Disability Studies for Singapore
Jonathan Chan reviews Not Without Us.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

Loss and Discovery: The Important Reconstruction of Mervin Mirapuri’s Last Work
Jonathan Chan reviews Mervin Mirapuri.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

Different Shades of the Colour Brown
Jonathan Chan reviews Brown is Redacted.

Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023

The Confessional: Familiarity and Defamiliarisation
Jonathan Chan reviews Ang Shuang.

Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022

A springtime of witness and courage
Jonathan Chan reviews Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Myanmar (1988–2021).
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022

Union and Separation, and the Crow’s Bumpy Flight
Jonathan Chan reviews Crispin Rodrigues.

Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

All the space in the world
Jonathan Chan reviews Pooja Nansi.

Vol. 21 No. 1 Jan 2022

Quiet Words for Quiet Times
Duana Chan reviews James Shea.
Vol. 14 No. 2 Apr 2015

Cut and press
Jonathan Chan reviews Mok Zining.

Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021

Fertile Birthsoil: A Translation That Binds
Jonathan Chan reviews Nguyễn Thanh Hiện.
Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024

Global Asia: New Pathways for Singapore Studies
Jonathan Chan reviews Becoming Global Asia.

Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024

Timeless Tale of Gender Bending, Art and Loss
Meira Chand reviews Suchen Christine Lim.

Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023

Singapore Gem
Chew Yi Wei reviews Writing Singapore
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

The Impossible Task
Christine Chia reviews Felix Cheong.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019

Identifying Absence
Debbie Chia reviews Yeow Kai Chai
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

Startled Deer Poetry
Christine Chia reviews a single headlamp.
Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003

Brave New Singapore Poetries
Christine Chia reviews New Singapore Poetries.

Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023

Packing Quite A Punch
Christine Chia reviews Koh Beng Liang's last three women.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

The Sins and Silences of the Fathers
Christine Chia reviews Crispin Rodrigues.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

Mostly on the right track, but not without faults
Chua Xin Rong reviews Nicholas Yong.
Vol. 17 No. 1 Jan 2018

An Ominous Map
Grace Chua reviews Fifty on 50
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

Healing Landscapes
Jen Crawford reviews John Mateer
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

Treading Safely
Jen Crawford reviews Interlogue 8.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

Dreaming in Fragments
Noelle Q. de Jesus reviews Daryl Li.

Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024

Let’s Get Physical
Diana Rahim reviews Tania De Rozario.
Vol. 16 No. 1 Jan 2017

Willing to Share
David Fedo reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

Buoyant Pulse
David Fedo reviews Lydia Kwa
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Valpolicella with Chicken Rice
David Fedo reviews Double Skin
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

Full On, Close Up
David Fedo reviews Alvin Pang.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

History As Fiction and/or Fiction As History
David Fedo reviews Meira Chand
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

Picture-Perfect
David Fedo reviews Chris Mooney-Singh
Vol. 11 No. 2 Apr 2012

Going Local, Not Global
Priscilla Gan reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal.
Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017

Swanning Details
Wendy Gan reviews D. Devika Bai.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Drowning in Nostalgia
Wilson Goh reviews Michelle Lim Min Min.
Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005

An Open Prison
Edward Goh reviews UnFree Verse.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018

Geographies of the Self
Jasmine Goh reviews Ally Chua and Marc Nair.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

The Mystery of a Girl
Jasmine Goh reviews Linda Collins

Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022

Beyond Colloquial Prowesses
Gwee Li Sui reviews Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia
Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008

Food coma
Gwee Li Sui reviews Food Republic.

Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021

Loss is Found
Gwee Li Sui reviews Kamal Kumar Tanti.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019

The inner life of an enduring language
Gwee Li Sui reviews Unwinding and Other Contemporary Tamil Short Stories.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020

Through a glass brightly
Gwee Li Sui reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014

Spaces of Intersection
Pamela Ho reviews Nilanjana Sengupta.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

An Upfront View
Pamela Ho reviews Constance Singam.

Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022

When Three Becomes Two
Pamela Ho reviews Carissa Foo.

Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022

Millefeuille
Philip Holden reviews Christine Chia.
Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct 2014

The Myth that Dare Not Speak its Name
Philip Holden reviews A Luxury We Cannot Afford.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015

Remembered Songs
Philip Holden reviews Yeo Wei Wei.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015

Joining the Blurred Dots
Huang Qin Qin reviews Arlene Ang.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Tribute To The Cosmopolitan
Judith Huang reviews Wena Poon
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

The Body In Flight
Kao Jong-Ee reviews Shirley Lim
Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006

Finding the Real in the Fantastical
Kirat Kaur reviews Nuraliah Norasid.
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017

Double Vision
Laura Kho reviews Marc Nair.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016

B-Side Record
Ronald Klein reviews One.
Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012

Opus for Eye and Ear
Ronald Klein reviews David Mitchell.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

Gaps between the Bars
Adeline Koh reviews Pranav S. Joshi
Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008

dowhile doodah
Koh Jee Leong reviews Yong Shu Hoong's dowhile.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Fundamental Positions
Koh Jee Leong reviews Cyril Wong's below: absence.
Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003

Precious Stones, Sometimes Inscrutable
Gilbert Koh reviews Chandran Nair
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

The Corners of Our Eyes
Theophilus Kwek reviews Hook and Eye.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018

Past Tense, Future Perfect
Theophilus Kwek reviews Written Country.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016

What We Are Missing
Theophilus Kwek reviews Jennifer Wong.
Vol. 19 No. 3 Jul 2020

Postcolonial Pastoral
Theophilus Kwek reviews Rachel Heng.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

Perfectly Ordinary People
Dylan Kwok reviews Zen Cho.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

You Won’t Believe What Happened to this Monkey!
Dylan Kwok reviews Jon Gresham.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

This Article is a Stub
Dylan Kwok reviews Drawn to Satire.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

Hand on Heartlands
Aaron Lee reviews Paul Tan.
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

Heartland of Myths and Alter Egos
Aaron Lee reviews Ng Yi-Sheng
Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008

Strange Girl
Laura Jane Lee reviews Wong May.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

Fortune Turned To Stone
Aaron Lee reviews Holiday Coast Medusa.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Full marks for freshman effort
Laremy Lee reviews Philip Holden.
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017

Bending laws, reclaiming lore
Laremy Lee reviews Eastern Heathens.
Vol. 12 No. 3 Jul 2013

A Poetic Statement – and a Linguistic One
Laura Jane Lee reviews Mary Jean Chan.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

On the Subject of Race
Laremy Lee reviews Alfian Sa'at
Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012

Please, Read the Epigraph
Laura Jane Lee reviews Eric Yip and Max Pasakorn.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024

Six of the Best
Laremy Lee reviews Tan Tarn How
Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011

Dusty Gems
Laremy Lee reviews Arthur Yap's prose.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014

Hit And Stay
Michele Lee reviews Stephanie Chan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

Sofia and The Runaways
Letitia Lew reviews Judith Huang.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018

Bilingual Edition
Jerome Lim reviews Hamid Roslan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

Snow in Singapore: On Cosmopolitan Melancholy
Al Lim reviews Daryl Qilin Yam.

Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022

Presence and Absence
Shirley Geok-lin Lim reviews Yong Shu Hoong.
Vol. 18 No. 2 Apr 2019

Making Visible
Daryl Lim reviews Passages.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014

A Broad Sweep
Chloe Lim reviews Poetry Moves.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020

The Shadow's Missing Half
Michelle Lim reviews Haruki Murakami.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Spoilt for Choice
Daryl Lim reviews Crispin Rodrigues.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

Lingering Voices of a Fatherland
Al Lim reviews Koh Jee Leong.

Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023

Singapore Between Past and Future
Shirley Lim reviews Boey Kim Cheng
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

Safe Harbour
Daryl Lim reviews Aaron Lee.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015

Mapping Minutiae
Daryl Lim reviews Justin Ker.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015

To Present the Meaning of Marbles
Al Lim reviews Tse Hao Guang.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

View from below
Daryl Lim Wei Jie reviews Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh.
Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013

Trying Too Hard
Daryl Lim reviews Mayo Martin.
Vol. 13 No. 1 Jan 2014

Sparkling Glass
Shirley Lim on Wong Phui Nam
Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007

Society, Excess, and Yet
Al Lim reviews Daryl Lim Wei Jie.

Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

Brave New World
Li-Min Lim reviews JY Yang.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018

Singapore noodles
Lim Wei Khai reviews Naoise Dolan.

Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

Cravings in a Food-obsessed Nation
Daryl Lim reviews Ambrosia for the People: Hawker Centre Food.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

Manic Pixie Dream Home
Lim Wei Khai reviews Clarissa Goenawan.

Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022

No Grand New Word
Nicholas Liu reviews Gilbert Koh
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

Problems and Promises
Nicholas Liu reviews Grace Chua
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

Uncertain Mastery
Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

Limping with Fever and Discomfort
Nicholas Liu reviews Terence Heng.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Only Project
Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong
Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011

All Ears
Miriam Lo reviews Angeline Yap
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

Representation In Two Dimensions
Kendrick Loo reviews Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore
Vol. 19 No. 3 Jul 2020

No More Monkey Business
Colin Low Yu Cong reviews Troy Chin.              
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016

I For Indulgence
Eric Low reviews Vivienne Yeo.
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

In On the Party
Low Ying Ping reviews Joshua Ferris.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015

The Work of Language
Mok Zining reviews Shawn Hoo and Malachi Edwin Vethamani.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023

A Poet of the Moment
Neil Murphy reviews Madeleine Lee.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

A Dark Contemporary Eye
Neil Murphy reviews Claire Tham's The Gunpowder Trail and Other Stories.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Affinities and Tensions
Pallavi Narayan reviews The Second Link.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

Vibrant, Intricate and Integrated: Diaspora Narratives in Contemporary Singapore
Pallavi Narayan reviews Prasanthi Ram.

Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024

A Delicacy of Feeling
Pallavi Narayan reviews Malachi Edwin Vethamani.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

A Visual Treat or a Play on Words?
Pallavi Narayan reviews Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

A Shattered Kaleidoscope
Sam Ng reviews Amanda Lee Koe.  
Vol. 13 No. 1 Jan 2014

Top of the pops
Ng Wei Chian reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013

A Postmodern Naturalism
Leonard Ng reviews A Field Guide to Surreal Botany.
Vol. 8 No. 1 Jan 2009

All Things Pass with Time, All Things Freeze with Time
Sam Ng reviews Christine Chia
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

No Holiday From The Self
Leonard Ng reviews Zia Zaman's Losing Oneself in Remote Asia.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Maiden Voyage Flounders on Lack of Distinction
Leonard Ng reviews kensai's Maiden.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Caught in the Heartland
Paul Ng reviews Lee Jing-Jing.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Double Vision
Leonard Ng reviews Ouyang Yu
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

Tangled Vermicelli
Sam Ng reviews Jon Gresham.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016

Illusions of Memory
Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Gregory Nalpon.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014

Of Politics, Proles and Party Members
Ng Wei Chian reviews Kee Thuan Chye.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Lost in Transition
Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Toh Hsien Min
Vol. 7 No. 4 Oct 2008

Modernity and Its Discontents
Ng Wei Chian reviews William Lim's Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Ponderous Puns and Meandering Metaphors
Ng Wei Chian reviews The Manic Memoirs of Terry Ho.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Not Yet Ideal
Leonard Ng reviews idea to ideal.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

Classical Collapse
Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Arthur Yap's Collected Poems.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014

Slippery Disconnect
Alvin Pang reviews Koh Buck Song's The Ocean of Ambition.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Good Intentions Point to Critical Needs
Rajeev Patke reviews Singapore Literature: A Critical Reader.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

When Fiction Gives Birth to Fiction
Phan Ming Yen reviews Tan Twan Eng.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

Lost in Space
Phan Ming Yen reviews Han Kang.

Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024

Reading Architectural and Social History as a Personal Journey Home
Phan Ming Yen reviews Everyday Modernism.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

On the Familiar Made Exotic
Wena Poon reviews Thomas Kitching's Life and Death in Changi.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Like Cliffs of Granite
Wena Poon reviews Mary O'Donnell
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

A T'ang Canon
Gilbert Wesley Purdy reviews a new translation of Poems of the Masters.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Getting the House in Order
Sheo S. Rai reviews People Like Us.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Catman Beyond?
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Myle Yan Tay.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

Practitioner, Activist, Poet
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Kirsten Han.

Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024

The Question of Continuity
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Robert Yeo.

Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023

The Philosophical, the Political, the Tongue-in-cheek
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Gwee Li Sui.

Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

Of Family History and Personal Faith
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Jonathan Chan.

Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023

A Fine Line that Connects and Cuts
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Johnny Jon Jon.

Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022

The Chickens Have Flown The Coop
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Jeddie Sophronius.

Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024

Don’t Judge An Anthology By Its Introduction aka Things That You Cannot Help But Notice
Anne Seah reviews Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Cleaving Cleavage
Anne Seah reviews Chris Tysh.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Chew Hard and Swallow
Helaine L. Smith reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019

A man of his time
Kevin Sullivan reviews Robert Yeo at Eighty.

Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021

A Wilting Bloom
Paul Tan reviews Eunice Chew's The Sea In Blossom.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Singapore Love Stories.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017

Building Castles In The Air
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Clara Chow.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017

Redemption Never Comes
Kevin Tan reviews Euginia Tan.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016

Majestic Dreams Sunk by Lofty Ambitions
Kevin Tan reviews Krishna Udayasankar.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016

Grasping at Shadows
Jolene Tan reviews O Thiam Chin.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014

A Singaporean Diaspora?
Eddie Tay reviews Wena Poon
Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008

Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Malcolm Tay reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct 2014

Daydreams in Monochrome
Malcolm Tay reviews the comic book edition of Gone Case
Vol. 10 No. 2 Apr 2011

Stranger In His Backyard
Malcolm Tay reviews Troy Chin
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

Movement In Search Of Form
Teo Xiao Ting reviews Ashley Ho.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

Refractions on SG50
Alex Tham reviews Sonny Liew.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015

Brittle Mirrors
Thow Xin Wei reviews Dave Chua.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

O Charming Pageantry
Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

This Image of Themselves
Thow Xin Wei reviews Reflecting on the Merlion.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

Seeing Double
Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020

Cyril Disobedience
Jeremy Tiang reviews Cyril Wong's The End of His Orbit.
Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002

If It Ain't Spoilt...
Jeremy Tiang reviews PIE to SPOILT.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Coming to Terms with Terror
Jeremy Tiang reviews September 11 and Political Freedoms.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Tales of the City
Jeremy Tiang reviews Postmodern Singapore.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Jeremy Tiang reviews Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

How A Novel Disappeared
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jing-Jing Lee.
Vol. 19 No. 1 Jan 2020

Drowning in a Shallow Sea
Samantha Toh reviews Thea Lim.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019

Into The Abyss We Go
Amos Toh reviews Cyril Wong
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

A Veritable Chop Suey
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sarah Howe.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016

Other Fish To Fry
Toh Hsien Min reviews Tan Teck Howe.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Indecent Exposure
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jolene Tan.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014

A Perfect Quest, Derailed
Samantha Toh reviews Clarissa Goenawan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

The Emperor's New Book
Toh Hsien Min reviews Seamus Heaney's Electric Light.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

Weeping for the Old Kind World
Toh Hsien Min reviews Kazuo Ishiguro.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Here I Am
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sally Rooney.

Vol. 20 No. 4 Oct 2021

Access Denied
Toh Hsien Min reviews Malaysian and Filipino poetry.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

This Star Deserves Some Watching
Samantha Toh reviews Amanda Lee Koe.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019

Sky In A Hundred Puddles
Toh Hsien Min reviews W.B. Keckler's Sanskrit of the Body.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

In The Observation Ward
Toh Hsien Min reviews No Visitors Allowed.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Long-Distance Writing
Toh Hsien Min reviews Colin Cheong and Stephanie Ye
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

But Some Are More Free Than Others
Toh Hsien Min reviews Why Do People Hate America?.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

The Beautiful and the Damned
Toh Hsien Min reviews Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

An Eye on the Eight-ball
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sid Gómez Hildawa
Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006

Following the story
Toh Hsien Min reviews Samanta Schweblin.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018

All So Familiar, It Could Be Home
Toh Hsien Min reviews Simon Tay's City of Small Blessings.
Vol. 8 No. 2 Apr 2009

Aging Gunn has a few bullets left
Review of Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid.
Beta Issue

Remarkably shy of remarkable
Samantha Toh reviews Sharlene Teo.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018

Some kind of despair
Toh Hsien Min reviews Rachel Heng.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018

Overgrown American pastoral landscapes
Toh Hsien Min reviews David Oliveira and David Fedo
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

Candle to the Sun
Toh Hsien Min reviews David Lehman's The Evening Sun.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Public and Private Longing in Heng Siok Tian’s Wallpaper
Kristina Tom reviews Heng Siok Tian.

Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022

A New Singaporean Ghost Story
Kristina Tom reviews Meihan Boey.

Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022

Portraiture in Verse: The Singaporean Histories of Jee Leong Koh’s Sample and Loop
Kristina Tom reviews Jee Leong Koh.

Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024

Singular Voice, Plural Tongues
Kristina Tom reviews Tumasik.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

How Hard It Is to Gather the Scattered
Tse Hao Guang reviews To Gather Your Leaving.

Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020

At Home Everywhere and Nowhere
Tse Hao Guang reviews Jee Leong Koh.        
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016

Art Pitted Against Travel
Barnard Turner reviews Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Warp And Weft
Tamara S. Wagner reviews Interlogue 5.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Destination Changi
Wong Wen Pu reviews In Transit.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017

Marrying Death to Beauty
Cyril Wong reviews Linda Pastan's The Last Uncle.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Monsoon Reading
Cyril Wong reviews City of Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Light As Ash
Cyril Wong reviews Heng Siok Tian's Contouring.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Stop the Bus, I'm Getting Off!
Cyril Wong reviews Yap Wy-En's Life's Bus-Stop.
Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002

The Inconsistent Story of Mr Richard Lim
Cyril Wong reviews Richard Lim's Got Singapore.
Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002

Fragmented Quest
Cyril Wong reviews Goro Takano.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Sympathy for the Soul
Wong Wen Pu reviews Daryl Qilin Yam.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016

Locating Logos
Cyril Wong reviews Mani Rao.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Epic Versions, Uneven Results
Cyril Wong reviews Eddie Tay.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Eliot For Everyone
Wong Wen Pu reviews T.S. Eliot's new Collected.
Vol. 15 No. 2 Apr 2016

A Bleak Ecstasy
Cyril Wong reviews Mark Strand.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Something’s Missing
Cyril Wong reviews Felix Cheong.
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

Gems under the Topsoil
Cyril Wong reviews Madeleine Marie Slavick.
Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004

Fuelled By Fear
Cyril Wong reviews C.K. Williams
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Leaving Things Open
Cyril Wong reviews Robert Yeo
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

The Present is a Foreign Country
Stephanie Ye reviews Balik Kampung
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

For the record - Oct 2015
Stephanie Ye rounds up Singapore literature year-to-date.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015

For the record - Jan 2016

Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016

Strangeness in a strange land
Stephanie Ye reviews Singa-Pura-Pura

Vol. 20 No. 3 Jul 2021

Schwellenangst
Stephanie Ye reviews Jeremy Tiang.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016

For the record - Apr 2016

Vol. 15 No. 2 Apr 2016

Ripples from the headlines
Stephanie Ye reviews Claire Tham.
Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013

For the record – April 2017

Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017

For the record – October 2017

Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017

For the record - Jul 2016

Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016

For the record – July 2017

Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017

Grief is an Extension of Love
Stephanie Ye reviews Linda Collins.
Vol. 18. No. 4 Oct 2019

For the record - Oct 2016

Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016

For the record – Jan 2017

Vol. 16 No. 1 Jan 2017

The Skin We Live In
Stephanie Ye reviews Jason Erik Lundberg

Vol. 20 No.1 Jan 2021

How To Be Seriously Alone
Gerard Yee reviews Jonathan Franzen's How To Be Alone.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Handle Poetry With Care
Yeo Yen Ping reviews Felix Cheong's Broken By The Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Exploring Big Things in Small Moments
Ryan Yeo reviews Vinita Ramani.

Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024

Not short of promises and possibilities
Ryan Yeo reviews Agnes Chew.

Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023

Death Is A Ceremony
Robert Yeo reviews Cyril Wong's unmarked treasure.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Mirror Images
Andrea Yew reviews Catherine Lim.
Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017

Gritted Teeth and Stoic Strength
Zhang Ruihe reviews From Boys To Men.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

His Master's Voice
Zhang Ruihe reviews Goh Poh Seng.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016

Inbetweeners
Zhuang Yisa reviews Karla Huston and David Chorlton chapbooks.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

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