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Criticism
Critiques and reviews of writing from Singapore and abroad.
Aging Gunn has a few bullets left Review of Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid. Beta Issue
The Emperor's New Book Toh Hsien Min reviews Seamus Heaney's Electric Light. Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
The Beautiful and the Damned Toh Hsien Min reviews Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband. Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
The Gift That Keeps On Giving Jeremy Tiang reviews Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift. Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Cyril Disobedience Jeremy Tiang reviews Cyril Wong's The End of His Orbit. Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
The Inconsistent Story of Mr Richard Lim Cyril Wong reviews Richard Lim's Got Singapore. Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Stop the Bus, I'm Getting Off! Cyril Wong reviews Yap Wy-En's Life's Bus-Stop. Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Tales of the City Jeremy Tiang reviews Postmodern Singapore. Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Candle to the Sun
Toh Hsien Min reviews David Lehman's The Evening Sun.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Overworked Symbols Conceal Gems Afiza reviews The Merlion and the Hibiscus. Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Maiden Voyage Flounders on Lack of Distinction
Leonard Ng reviews kensai's Maiden.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Marrying Death to Beauty Cyril Wong reviews Linda Pastan's The Last Uncle. Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Packing Quite A Punch
Christine Chia reviews Koh Beng Liang's last three women.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Art Pitted Against Travel Barnard Turner reviews Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
But Some Are More Free Than Others
Toh Hsien Min reviews Why Do People Hate America?.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Coming to Terms with Terror Jeremy Tiang reviews September 11 and Political Freedoms. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
dowhile doodah Koh Jee Leong reviews Yong Shu Hoong's dowhile. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Good Intentions Point to Critical Needs Rajeev Patke reviews Singapore Literature: A Critical Reader. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Fundamental Positions Koh Jee Leong reviews Cyril Wong's below: absence. Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Getting the House in Order Sheo S. Rai reviews People Like Us. Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
How To Be Seriously Alone Gerard Yee reviews Jonathan Franzen's How To Be Alone. Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
On the Familiar Made Exotic Wena Poon reviews Thomas Kitching's Life and Death in Changi. Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Gritted Teeth and Stoic Strength Zhang Ruihe reviews From Boys To Men. 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
Monsoon Reading
Cyril Wong reviews City of Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
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
In The Observation Ward Toh Hsien Min reviews No Visitors Allowed. Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Ponderous Puns and Meandering Metaphors Ng Wei Chian reviews The Manic Memoirs of Terry Ho. Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
If It Ain't Spoilt... Jeremy Tiang reviews PIE to SPOILT. Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Startled Deer Poetry
Christine Chia reviews a single headlamp.
Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Slippery Disconnect
Alvin Pang reviews Koh Buck Song's The Ocean of Ambition.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Modernity and Its Discontents Ng Wei Chian reviews William Lim's Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective. Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
A Dark Contemporary Eye Neil Murphy reviews Claire Tham's The Gunpowder Trail and Other Stories. Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
No Holiday From The Self Leonard Ng reviews Zia Zaman's Losing Oneself in Remote Asia. Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Death Is A Ceremony Robert Yeo reviews Cyril Wong's unmarked treasure. Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Sky In A Hundred Puddles
Toh Hsien Min reviews W.B. Keckler's Sanskrit of the Body.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
A Wilting Bloom Paul Tan reviews Eunice Chew's The Sea In Blossom. Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Light As Ash Cyril Wong reviews Heng Siok Tian's Contouring. Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
A T'ang Canon Gilbert Wesley Purdy reviews a new translation of Poems of the Masters. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Of Politics, Proles and Party Members Ng Wei Chian reviews Kee Thuan Chye. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Fortune Turned To Stone Aaron Lee reviews Holiday Coast Medusa. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Locating Logos Cyril Wong reviews Mani Rao. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Gems under the Topsoil Cyril Wong reviews Madeleine Marie Slavick. Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Access Denied Toh Hsien Min reviews Malaysian and Filipino poetry. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Opus for Eye and Ear Ronald Klein reviews David Mitchell. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Not Yet Ideal Leonard Ng reviews idea to ideal. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Weeping for the Old Kind World Toh Hsien Min reviews Kazuo Ishiguro. Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Limping with Fever and Discomfort Nicholas Liu reviews Terence Heng. Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Cleaving Cleavage Anne Seah reviews Chris Tysh. Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
A Poet of the Moment Neil Murphy reviews Madeleine Lee. Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Epic Versions, Uneven Results Cyril Wong reviews Eddie Tay. Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Drowning in Nostalgia Wilson Goh reviews Michelle Lim Min Min. Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Joining the Blurred Dots Huang Qin Qin reviews Arlene Ang. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Inbetweeners Zhuang Yisa reviews Karla Huston and David Chorlton chapbooks. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Warp And Weft Tamara S. Wagner reviews Interlogue 5. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Other Fish To Fry Toh Hsien Min reviews Tan Teck Howe. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
The Shadow's Missing Half Michelle Lim reviews Haruki Murakami. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Swanning Details Wendy Gan reviews D. Devika Bai. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Rubbing Out New Maps Boey Kim Cheng reviews Yong Shu Hoong Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
The Body In Flight Kao Jong-Ee reviews Shirley Lim Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
An Eye on the Eight-ball Toh Hsien Min reviews Sid Gómez Hildawa Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
I For Indulgence Eric Low reviews Vivienne Yeo. Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Hand on Heartlands Aaron Lee reviews Paul Tan. Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Identifying Absence Debbie Chia reviews Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Sparkling Glass Shirley Lim on Wong Phui Nam Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
Heartland of Myths and Alter Egos Aaron Lee reviews Ng Yi-Sheng Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
A Singaporean Diaspora? Eddie Tay reviews Wena Poon Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Beyond Colloquial Prowesses Gwee Li Sui reviews Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Gaps between the Bars Adeline Koh reviews Pranav S. Joshi Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
Lost in Transition Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Toh Hsien Min Vol. 7 No. 4 Oct 2008
A Postmodern Naturalism Leonard Ng reviews A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Vol. 8 No. 1 Jan 2009
All So Familiar, It Could Be Home Toh Hsien Min reviews Simon Tay's City of Small Blessings. Vol. 8 No. 2 Apr 2009
Singapore Between Past and Future Shirley Lim reviews Boey Kim Cheng Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009
No Grand New Word Nicholas Liu reviews Gilbert Koh Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009
Valpolicella with Chicken Rice David Fedo reviews Double Skin Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009
Singular Voice, Plural Tongues
Kristina Tom reviews Tumasik.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
This Image of Themselves Thow Xin Wei reviews Reflecting on the Merlion. Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
Treading Safely Jen Crawford reviews Interlogue 8. Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
Like Cliffs of Granite Wena Poon reviews Mary O'Donnell Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010
Overgrown American pastoral landscapes Toh Hsien Min reviews David Oliveira and David Fedo Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010
Uncertain Mastery Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong. Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010
Singapore Gem Chew Yi Wei reviews Writing Singapore Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Tribute To The Cosmopolitan Judith Huang reviews Wena Poon Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Fuelled By Fear Cyril Wong reviews C.K. Williams Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Buoyant Pulse David Fedo reviews Lydia Kwa Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Problems and Promises Nicholas Liu reviews Grace Chua Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010
Willing to Share David Fedo reviews Yong Shu Hoong Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010
An Ominous Map Grace Chua reviews Fifty on 50 Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010
Into The Abyss We Go Amos Toh reviews Cyril Wong Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011
Precious Stones, Sometimes Inscrutable Gilbert Koh reviews Chandran Nair Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011
Healing Landscapes Jen Crawford reviews John Mateer Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011
Daydreams in Monochrome Malcolm Tay reviews the comic book edition of Gone Case Vol. 10 No. 2 Apr 2011
Only Project Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011
Six of the Best Laremy Lee reviews Tan Tarn How Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011
Stranger In His Backyard Malcolm Tay reviews Troy Chin Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012
Leaving Things Open Cyril Wong reviews Robert Yeo Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012
All Ears Miriam Lo reviews Angeline Yap Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012
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
B-Side Record Ronald Klein reviews One. Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012
On the Subject of Race Laremy Lee reviews Alfian Sa'at Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012
Double Vision Leonard Ng reviews Ouyang Yu Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012
Long-Distance Writing Toh Hsien Min reviews Colin Cheong and Stephanie Ye Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012
All Things Pass with Time, All Things Freeze with Time Sam Ng reviews Christine Chia Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012
The Present is a Foreign Country Stephanie Ye reviews Balik Kampung Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
O Charming Pageantry Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong. Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
Something’s Missing Cyril Wong reviews Felix Cheong. Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
Full On, Close Up David Fedo reviews Alvin Pang. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Brittle Mirrors Thow Xin Wei reviews Dave Chua. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Caught in the Heartland Paul Ng reviews Lee Jing-Jing. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
A Bleak Ecstasy Cyril Wong reviews Mark Strand. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Fragmented Quest Cyril Wong reviews Goro Takano. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Bending laws, reclaiming lore Laremy Lee reviews Eastern Heathens. Vol. 12 No. 3 Jul 2013
Ripples from the headlines Stephanie Ye reviews Claire Tham. Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
Top of the pops
Ng Wei Chian reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
View from below Daryl Lim Wei Jie reviews Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh. Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
A Shattered Kaleidoscope
Sam Ng reviews Amanda Lee Koe.
Vol. 13 No. 1 Jan 2014
Trying Too Hard
Daryl Lim reviews Mayo Martin.
Vol. 13 No. 1 Jan 2014
Making Visible
Daryl Lim reviews Passages.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Illusions of Memory
Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Gregory Nalpon.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Through a glass brightly
Gwee Li Sui reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Grasping at Shadows
Jolene Tan reviews O Thiam Chin.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Indecent Exposure
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jolene Tan.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Classical Collapse
Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Arthur Yap's Collected Poems.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Dusty Gems
Laremy Lee reviews Arthur Yap's prose.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Malcolm Tay reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct 2014
Millefeuille
Philip Holden reviews Christine Chia.
Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct 2014
Safe Harbour
Daryl Lim reviews Aaron Lee.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015
The Myth that Dare Not Speak its Name
Philip Holden reviews A Luxury We Cannot Afford.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015
In On the Party
Low Ying Ping reviews Joshua Ferris.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015
Mapping Minutiae
Daryl Lim reviews Justin Ker.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015
Quiet Words for Quiet Times
Duana Chan reviews James Shea.
Vol. 14 No. 2 Apr 2015
Remembered Songs
Philip Holden reviews Yeo Wei Wei.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
For the record - Oct 2015
Stephanie Ye rounds up Singapore literature year-to-date.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
Refractions on SG50
Alex Tham reviews Sonny Liew. Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
Schwellenangst
Stephanie Ye reviews Jeremy Tiang.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
His Master's Voice
Zhang Ruihe reviews Goh Poh Seng.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
No More Monkey Business
Colin Low Yu Cong reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
For the record - Jan 2016
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
At Home Everywhere and Nowhere
Tse Hao Guang reviews Jee Leong Koh.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
For the record - Apr 2016
Vol. 15 No. 2 Apr 2016
Eliot For Everyone
Wong Wen Pu reviews T.S. Eliot's new Collected.
Vol. 15 No. 2 Apr 2016
Past Tense, Future Perfect
Theophilus Kwek reviews Written Country.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
Tangled Vermicelli
Sam Ng reviews Jon Gresham.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
Double Vision
Laura Kho reviews Marc Nair.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
A Veritable Chop Suey
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sarah Howe.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
For the record - Jul 2016
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
Redemption Never Comes
Kevin Tan reviews Euginia Tan.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016
For the record - Oct 2016
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016
Sympathy for the Soul
Wong Wen Pu reviews Daryl Qilin Yam.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016
Majestic Dreams Sunk by Lofty Ambitions
Kevin Tan reviews Krishna Udayasankar.
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 2016
Let’s Get Physical
Diana Rahim reviews Tania De Rozario.
Vol. 16 No. 1 Jan 2017
For the record – Jan 2017
Vol. 16 No. 1 Jan 2017
For the record – April 2017
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Building Castles In The Air
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Clara Chow.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Destination Changi
Wong Wen Pu reviews In Transit.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Singapore Love Stories.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Going Local, Not Global
Priscilla Gan reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal.
Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017
Mirror Images
Andrea Yew reviews Catherine Lim.
Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017
For the record – July 2017
Vol. 16 No. 3 Jul 2017
For the record – October 2017
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017
Finding the Real in the Fantastical
Kirat Kaur reviews Nuraliah Norasid.
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017
Full marks for freshman effort
Laremy Lee reviews Philip Holden.
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 2017
Mostly on the right track, but not without faults
Chua Xin Rong reviews Nicholas Yong.
Vol. 17 No. 1 Jan 2018
Brave New World
Li-Min Lim reviews JY Yang.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018
Following the story
Toh Hsien Min reviews Samanta Schweblin.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018
An Open Prison
Edward Goh reviews UnFree Verse.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018
The Corners of Our Eyes
Theophilus Kwek reviews Hook and Eye.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018
Sofia and The Runaways
Letitia Lew reviews Judith Huang.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018
Some kind of despair
Toh Hsien Min reviews Rachel Heng.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018
Remarkably shy of remarkable
Samantha Toh reviews Sharlene Teo.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 2018
The Impossible Task
Christine Chia reviews Felix Cheong.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019
Drowning in a Shallow Sea
Samantha Toh reviews Thea Lim.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019
Chew Hard and Swallow
Helaine L. Smith reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019
Presence and Absence
Shirley Geok-lin Lim reviews Yong Shu Hoong.
Vol. 18 No. 2 Apr 2019
Loss is Found
Gwee Li Sui reviews Kamal Kumar Tanti.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019
This Star Deserves Some Watching
Samantha Toh reviews Amanda Lee Koe.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019
Grief is an Extension of Love
Stephanie Ye reviews Linda Collins.
Vol. 18. No. 4 Oct 2019
How A Novel Disappeared
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jing-Jing Lee.
Vol. 19 No. 1 Jan 2020
How Hard It Is to Gather the Scattered
Tse Hao Guang reviews To Gather Your Leaving.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
Movement In Search Of Form
Teo Xiao Ting reviews Ashley Ho.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
Hit And Stay
Michele Lee reviews Stephanie Chan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
Bilingual Edition
Jerome Lim reviews Hamid Roslan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
A Perfect Quest, Derailed
Samantha Toh reviews Clarissa Goenawan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
Spoilt for Choice
Daryl Lim reviews Crispin Rodrigues.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
What We Are Missing
Theophilus Kwek reviews Jennifer Wong.
Vol. 19 No. 3 Jul 2020
Representation In Two Dimensions
Kendrick Loo reviews Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore
Vol. 19 No. 3 Jul 2020
Seeing Double
Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020
The inner life of an enduring language
Gwee Li Sui reviews Unwinding and Other Contemporary Tamil Short Stories.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020
A Broad Sweep
Chloe Lim reviews Poetry Moves.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020
The Skin We Live In
Stephanie Ye reviews Jason Erik Lundberg
Vol. 20 No.1 Jan 2021
Cut and press
Jonathan Chan reviews Mok Zining.
Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021
Food coma
Gwee Li Sui reviews Food Republic.
Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021
A man of his time
Kevin Sullivan reviews Robert Yeo at Eighty.
Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021
Strangeness in a strange land
Stephanie Ye reviews Singa-Pura-Pura
Vol. 20 No. 3 Jul 2021
Here I Am
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sally Rooney.
Vol. 20 No. 4 Oct 2021
All the space in the world
Jonathan Chan reviews Pooja Nansi.
Vol. 21 No. 1 Jan 2022
Public and Private Longing in Heng Siok Tian’s Wallpaper
Kristina Tom reviews Heng Siok Tian.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022
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
The Philosophical, the Political, the Tongue-in-cheek
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Gwee Li Sui.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022
Society, Excess, and Yet
Al Lim reviews Daryl Lim Wei Jie.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022
Union and Separation, and the Crow’s Bumpy Flight
Jonathan Chan reviews Crispin Rodrigues.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022
Snow in Singapore: On Cosmopolitan Melancholy
Al Lim reviews Daryl Qilin Yam.
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022
An Upfront View
Pamela Ho reviews Constance Singam.
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 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
Manic Pixie Dream Home
Lim Wei Khai reviews Clarissa Goenawan.
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022
A Fine Line that Connects and Cuts
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Johnny Jon Jon.
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 2022
A New Singaporean Ghost Story
Kristina Tom reviews Meihan Boey.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
A Light Touch
Shelly Bryant reviews Wong May.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
The Confessional: Familiarity and Defamiliarisation
Jonathan Chan reviews Ang Shuang.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
The Mystery of a Girl
Jasmine Goh reviews Linda Collins
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
When Three Becomes Two
Pamela Ho reviews Carissa Foo.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
Of Family History and Personal Faith
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Jonathan Chan.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Assuredly Californian and Land-bound
Jonathan Chan reviews Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Timeless Tale of Gender Bending, Art and Loss
Meira Chand reviews Suchen Christine Lim.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Lingering Voices of a Fatherland
Al Lim reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
The Work of Language
Mok Zining reviews Shawn Hoo and Malachi Edwin Vethamani.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Brave New Singapore Poetries
Christine Chia reviews New Singapore Poetries.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Different Shades of the Colour Brown
Jonathan Chan reviews Brown is Redacted.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Inside a Troubled Mind
Shelly Bryant reviews O Thiam Chin.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Strange Girl
Laura Jane Lee reviews Wong May.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Spaces of Intersection
Pamela Ho reviews Nilanjana Sengupta.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Shaping a Critical Disability Studies for Singapore
Jonathan Chan reviews Not Without Us.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
More Than A Useful Exercise
Shelly Bryant reviews Yeo Wei Wei's renderings of Soon Ai Ling.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Postcolonial Pastoral
Theophilus Kwek reviews Rachel Heng.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
The Question of Continuity
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Robert Yeo.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
When Fiction Gives Birth to Fiction
Phan Ming Yen reviews Tan Twan Eng.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Not short of promises and possibilities
Ryan Yeo reviews Agnes Chew.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
To Present the Meaning of Marbles
Al Lim reviews Tse Hao Guang.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
Perfectly Ordinary People
Dylan Kwok reviews Zen Cho.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
Savvy Choices
Shelly Bryant reviews Daryl Lim's translations of Wang Mun Kiat.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
Catman Beyond?
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Myle Yan Tay.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
A Visual Treat or a Play on Words?
Pallavi Narayan reviews Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
Staring deep into the ink pond
Jonathan Chan reviews Kit Fan.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
This Article is a Stub Dylan Kwok reviews Drawn to Satire.
Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
A Delicacy of Feeling Pallavi Narayan reviews Malachi Edwin Vethamani.
Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
Geographies of the Self Jasmine Goh reviews Ally Chua and Marc Nair. Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
Practitioner, Activist, Poet Crispin Rodrigues reviews Kirsten Han.
Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
A Poetic Statement – and a Linguistic One Laura Jane Lee reviews Mary Jean Chan.
Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
Loss and Discovery: The Important Reconstruction of Mervin Mirapuri’s Last Work Jonathan Chan reviews Mervin Mirapuri. Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
Reading Architectural and Social History as a Personal Journey Home Phan Ming Yen reviews Everyday Modernism. Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
A Novel of Big Ideas
Shelly Bryant reviews Lydia Kwa.
Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024
Fertile Birthsoil: A Translation That Binds
Jonathan Chan reviews Nguyễn Thanh Hiện.
Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024
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
Dreaming in Fragments
Noelle Q. de Jesus reviews Daryl Li.
Vol. 23 No. 2 Apr 2024
Vibrant, Intricate and Integrated: Diaspora Narratives in Contemporary Singapore
Pallavi Narayan reviews Prasanthi Ram.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024
Global Asia: New Pathways for Singapore Studies
Jonathan Chan reviews Becoming Global Asia.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024
The Chickens Have Flown The Coop
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Jeddie Sophronius.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024
Lost in Space
Phan Ming Yen reviews Han Kang.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024
Please, Read the Epigraph
Laura Jane Lee reviews Eric Yip and Max Pasakorn.
Vol. 23 No. 3 Jul 2024
Poetry and artmaking out of the ordinary
Jonathan Chan reviews Felix Cheong and Sam Lay.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
Exploring Big Things in Small Moments
Ryan Yeo reviews Vinita Ramani.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
The Sins and Silences of the Fathers
Christine Chia reviews Crispin Rodrigues.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
You Won’t Believe What Happened to this Monkey!
Dylan Kwok reviews Jon Gresham.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
Affinities and Tensions
Pallavi Narayan reviews The Second Link.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
A Resounding “Yes”
Shelly Bryant reviews The Lantern and the Night Moths.
Vol. 23 No. 4 Oct 2024
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