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Criticism
Critiques and reviews of writing from Singapore and abroad.
This Article is a Stub Dylan Kwok reviews Drawn to Satire.
Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
Geographies of the Self Jasmine Goh reviews Ally Chua and Marc Nair. 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
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
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
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
Catman Beyond?
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Myle Yan Tay.
Vol. 22 No. 4 Oct 2023
Staring deep into the ink pond
Jonathan Chan reviews Kit Fan.
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
The Question of Continuity
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Robert Yeo.
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
Strange Girl
Laura Jane Lee reviews Wong May.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Postcolonial Pastoral
Theophilus Kwek reviews Rachel Heng.
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
Shaping a Critical Disability Studies for Singapore
Jonathan Chan reviews Not Without Us.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Spaces of Intersection
Pamela Ho reviews Nilanjana Sengupta.
Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
Inside a Troubled Mind
Shelly Bryant reviews O Thiam Chin.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Different Shades of the Colour Brown
Jonathan Chan reviews Brown is Redacted.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Brave New Singapore Poetries
Christine Chia reviews New Singapore Poetries.
Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr 2023
Assuredly Californian and Land-bound
Jonathan Chan reviews Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
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
Timeless Tale of Gender Bending, Art and Loss
Meira Chand reviews Suchen Christine Lim.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Of Family History and Personal Faith
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Jonathan Chan.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
Lingering Voices of a Fatherland
Al Lim reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023
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 Mystery of a Girl
Jasmine Goh reviews Linda Collins
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
The Confessional: Familiarity and Defamiliarisation
Jonathan Chan reviews Ang Shuang.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
When Three Becomes Two
Pamela Ho reviews Carissa Foo.
Vol. 21 No. 4 Oct 2022
A Fine Line that Connects and Cuts
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Johnny Jon Jon.
Vol. 21 No. 3 Jul 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
Cravings in a Food-obsessed Nation
Daryl Lim reviews Ambrosia for the People: Hawker Centre Food.
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
Singapore noodles
Lim Wei Khai reviews Naoise Dolan.
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
Public and Private Longing in Heng Siok Tian’s Wallpaper
Kristina Tom reviews Heng Siok Tian.
Vol. 21 No. 2 Apr 2022
All the space in the world
Jonathan Chan reviews Pooja Nansi.
Vol. 21 No. 1 Jan 2022
Here I Am
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sally Rooney.
Vol. 20 No. 4 Oct 2021
Strangeness in a strange land
Stephanie Ye reviews Singa-Pura-Pura
Vol. 20 No. 3 Jul 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
Cut and press
Jonathan Chan reviews Mok Zining.
Vol. 20 No. 2 Apr 2021
The Skin We Live In
Stephanie Ye reviews Jason Erik Lundberg
Vol. 20 No.1 Jan 2021
The inner life of an enduring language
Gwee Li Sui reviews Unwinding and Other Contemporary Tamil Short Stories.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020
Seeing Double
Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 2020
A Broad Sweep
Chloe Lim reviews Poetry Moves.
Vol. 19 No. 4 Oct 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
Bilingual Edition
Jerome Lim reviews Hamid Roslan.
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
Spoilt for Choice
Daryl Lim reviews Crispin Rodrigues.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
A Perfect Quest, Derailed
Samantha Toh reviews Clarissa Goenawan.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
How Hard It Is to Gather the Scattered
Tse Hao Guang reviews To Gather Your Leaving.
Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020
How A Novel Disappeared
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jing-Jing Lee.
Vol. 19 No. 1 Jan 2020
Grief is an Extension of Love
Stephanie Ye reviews Linda Collins.
Vol. 18. No. 4 Oct 2019
This Star Deserves Some Watching
Samantha Toh reviews Amanda Lee Koe.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019
Loss is Found
Gwee Li Sui reviews Kamal Kumar Tanti.
Vol. 18 No. 3 Jul 2019
Presence and Absence
Shirley Geok-lin Lim reviews Yong Shu Hoong.
Vol. 18 No. 2 Apr 2019
Chew Hard and Swallow
Helaine L. Smith reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 18 No. 1 Jan 2019
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
Remarkably shy of remarkable
Samantha Toh reviews Sharlene Teo.
Vol. 17 No. 4 Oct 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
The Corners of Our Eyes
Theophilus Kwek reviews Hook and Eye.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018
An Open Prison
Edward Goh reviews UnFree Verse.
Vol. 17 No. 3 Jul 2018
Following the story
Toh Hsien Min reviews Samanta Schweblin.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018
Brave New World
Li-Min Lim reviews JY Yang.
Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018
Mostly on the right track, but not without faults
Chua Xin Rong reviews Nicholas Yong.
Vol. 17 No. 1 Jan 2018
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
For the record – October 2017
Vol. 16 No. 4 Oct 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
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Singapore Love Stories.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
For the record – April 2017
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Destination Changi
Wong Wen Pu reviews In Transit.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
Building Castles In The Air
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews Clara Chow.
Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017
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
Redemption Never Comes
Kevin Tan reviews Euginia Tan.
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
For the record - Oct 2016
Vol. 15 No. 4 Oct 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
Past Tense, Future Perfect
Theophilus Kwek reviews Written Country.
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 2016
For the record - Jul 2016
Vol. 15 No. 3 Jul 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
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
His Master's Voice
Zhang Ruihe reviews Goh Poh Seng.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
Schwellenangst
Stephanie Ye reviews Jeremy Tiang.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
No More Monkey Business
Colin Low Yu Cong reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2016
Remembered Songs
Philip Holden reviews Yeo Wei Wei.
Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
Refractions on SG50
Alex Tham reviews Sonny Liew. 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
Quiet Words for Quiet Times
Duana Chan reviews James Shea.
Vol. 14 No. 2 Apr 2015
The Myth that Dare Not Speak its Name
Philip Holden reviews A Luxury We Cannot Afford.
Vol. 14 No. 1 Jan 2015
Safe Harbour
Daryl Lim reviews Aaron Lee.
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
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
Indecent Exposure
Toh Hsien Min reviews Jolene Tan.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Dusty Gems
Laremy Lee reviews Arthur Yap's prose.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Classical Collapse
Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Arthur Yap's Collected Poems.
Vol. 13 No. 3 Jul 2014
Through a glass brightly
Gwee Li Sui reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Illusions of Memory
Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Gregory Nalpon.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Making Visible
Daryl Lim reviews Passages.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
Grasping at Shadows
Jolene Tan reviews O Thiam Chin.
Vol. 13 No. 2 Apr 2014
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
Ripples from the headlines Stephanie Ye reviews Claire Tham. Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
View from below Daryl Lim Wei Jie reviews Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh. Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
Top of the pops
Ng Wei Chian reviews Troy Chin.
Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct 2013
Bending laws, reclaiming lore Laremy Lee reviews Eastern Heathens. Vol. 12 No. 3 Jul 2013
Brittle Mirrors Thow Xin Wei reviews Dave Chua. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Full On, Close Up David Fedo reviews Alvin Pang. Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013
Fragmented Quest Cyril Wong reviews Goro Takano. 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
The Present is a Foreign Country Stephanie Ye reviews Balik Kampung Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
Something’s Missing Cyril Wong reviews Felix Cheong. Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
O Charming Pageantry Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong. Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013
Double Vision Leonard Ng reviews Ouyang Yu 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
Long-Distance Writing Toh Hsien Min reviews Colin Cheong and Stephanie Ye Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012
On the Subject of Race Laremy Lee reviews Alfian Sa'at Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012
B-Side Record Ronald Klein reviews One. Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012
Picture-Perfect David Fedo reviews Chris Mooney-Singh Vol. 11 No. 2 Apr 2012
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
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
Daydreams in Monochrome Malcolm Tay reviews the comic book edition of Gone Case Vol. 10 No. 2 Apr 2011
Healing Landscapes Jen Crawford reviews John Mateer Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011
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
Problems and Promises Nicholas Liu reviews Grace Chua Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010
An Ominous Map Grace Chua reviews Fifty on 50 Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010
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
Fuelled By Fear Cyril Wong reviews C.K. Williams Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Tribute To The Cosmopolitan Judith Huang reviews Wena Poon Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010
Singapore Gem Chew Yi Wei reviews Writing Singapore Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 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
Like Cliffs of Granite Wena Poon reviews Mary O'Donnell Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010
Treading Safely Jen Crawford reviews Interlogue 8. Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
This Image of Themselves Thow Xin Wei reviews Reflecting on the Merlion. Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
Singular Voice, Plural Tongues
Kristina Tom reviews Tumasik.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010
No Grand New Word Nicholas Liu reviews Gilbert Koh Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009
Singapore Between Past and Future Shirley Lim reviews Boey Kim Cheng Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009
Valpolicella with Chicken Rice David Fedo reviews Double Skin Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 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
A Postmodern Naturalism Leonard Ng reviews A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Vol. 8 No. 1 Jan 2009
Lost in Transition Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Toh Hsien Min Vol. 7 No. 4 Oct 2008
Gaps between the Bars Adeline Koh reviews Pranav S. Joshi Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
Beyond Colloquial Prowesses Gwee Li Sui reviews Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
A Singaporean Diaspora? Eddie Tay reviews Wena Poon Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Heartland of Myths and Alter Egos Aaron Lee reviews Ng Yi-Sheng Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Sparkling Glass Shirley Lim on Wong Phui Nam Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
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
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
Rubbing Out New Maps Boey Kim Cheng reviews Yong Shu Hoong Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Swanning Details Wendy Gan reviews D. Devika Bai. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
The Shadow's Missing Half Michelle Lim reviews Haruki Murakami. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Other Fish To Fry Toh Hsien Min reviews Tan Teck Howe. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Warp And Weft Tamara S. Wagner reviews Interlogue 5. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Inbetweeners Zhuang Yisa reviews Karla Huston and David Chorlton chapbooks. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Joining the Blurred Dots Huang Qin Qin reviews Arlene Ang. Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Drowning in Nostalgia Wilson Goh reviews Michelle Lim Min Min. Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Weeping for the Old Kind World Toh Hsien Min reviews Kazuo Ishiguro. 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
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
Access Denied Toh Hsien Min reviews Malaysian and Filipino poetry. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Not Yet Ideal Leonard Ng reviews idea to ideal. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Opus for Eye and Ear Ronald Klein reviews David Mitchell. Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Gems under the Topsoil Cyril Wong reviews Madeleine Marie Slavick. Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Fortune Turned To Stone Aaron Lee reviews Holiday Coast Medusa. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 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
Locating Logos Cyril Wong reviews Mani Rao. Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 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
Death Is A Ceremony Robert Yeo reviews Cyril Wong's unmarked treasure. Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Light As Ash Cyril Wong reviews Heng Siok Tian's Contouring. Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
No Holiday From The Self Leonard Ng reviews Zia Zaman's Losing Oneself in Remote Asia. Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Slippery Disconnect
Alvin Pang reviews Koh Buck Song's The Ocean of Ambition.
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
Modernity and Its Discontents Ng Wei Chian reviews William Lim's Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective. Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Startled Deer Poetry
Christine Chia reviews a single headlamp.
Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Monsoon Reading
Cyril Wong reviews City of Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
In The Observation Ward Toh Hsien Min reviews No Visitors Allowed. 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
If It Ain't Spoilt... Jeremy Tiang reviews PIE to SPOILT. 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
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
Getting the House in Order Sheo S. Rai reviews People Like Us. 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
How To Be Seriously Alone Gerard Yee reviews Jonathan Franzen's How To Be Alone. Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Fundamental Positions Koh Jee Leong reviews Cyril Wong's below: absence. Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Good Intentions Point to Critical Needs Rajeev Patke reviews Singapore Literature: A Critical Reader. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
dowhile doodah Koh Jee Leong reviews Yong Shu Hoong's dowhile. Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Packing Quite A Punch
Christine Chia reviews Koh Beng Liang's last three women.
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
Art Pitted Against Travel Barnard Turner reviews Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel. 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
Overworked Symbols Conceal Gems Afiza reviews The Merlion and the Hibiscus. Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 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
Marrying Death to Beauty Cyril Wong reviews Linda Pastan's The Last Uncle. 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
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
Cyril Disobedience Jeremy Tiang reviews Cyril Wong's The End of His Orbit. Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
The Gift That Keeps On Giving Jeremy Tiang reviews Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift. 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 Emperor's New Book Toh Hsien Min reviews Seamus Heaney's Electric Light. Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Aging Gunn has a few bullets left Review of Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid. Beta Issue
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