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Poetry After The Fall
Poetry After The Fall

Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Belmont by Stephen Burt (USA: Graywolf Press, 2013).

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Poetry, ReviewJee KohSeptember 6, 2017Ng Yi-Sheng, Stephen Burt, Graywolf PressComment
Have a Helping of Mackerel
Have a Helping of Mackerel

SP interviews cultural magazine Mackerel co-founders Marc Nair and Carolyn Oei.

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InterviewJee KohSeptember 5, 2017Marc Nair, Carolyn OeiComment
Medusa in Singapore
Medusa in Singapore

Inez Tan reviews Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper (Singapore and London: Epigram Books, 2017).

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ReviewJee KohSeptember 2, 2017Inez Tan, Nuraliah Norasid, Epigram BooksComment
Alternative Facts
Alternative Facts

Angus Whitehead reviews Paul Beatty's The Sellout (USA: Picador, 2016).

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Fiction, ReviewJee KohSeptember 1, 2017Paul Beatty, Angus Whitehead, PicadorComment
Speaking Against
Speaking Against

Andrew Howdle reviews Cyril Wong’s The Lover’s Inventory (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2015).

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Review, PoetryJee KohAugust 31, 2017Cyril Wong, Andrew Howdle, Math Paper PressComment
The Writer as Historian
The Writer as Historian

P. J. Thum reviews Written Country, edited by Gwee Li Sui (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2016).

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Review, Poetry, FictionJee KohAugust 30, 2017Gwee Li Sui, P. J. Thum, Landmark BooksComment
Writing the South Seas
Writing the South Seas

Philip Holden (National University of Singapore) interviews Brian Bernards on the publication of a Southeast Asian edition of his book Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature by NUS Press.

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InterviewJee KohAugust 28, 2017Brian Bernards, Philip Holden, South SeasComment
How to Build an American Home
How to Build an American Home

Tse Hao Guang reviews Jennifer S. Cheng’s House A (USA: Omnidawn, 2016).

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Review, PoetryJee KohAugust 25, 2017Jennifer S. Cheng, Tse Hao Guang, Omnidawn Comment
Nothing Little "About a Little Life"
Nothing Little "About a Little Life"

Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (USA: Doubleday, 2015).

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Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 25, 2017Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, Hanya Yanagihara, DoubledayComment
Singapore Tooth and Claw
Singapore Tooth and Claw

Stewart Dorward reviews Meddling and Murder by Ovidia Yu (USA: Killer Reads/Harper Collins, 2017).

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Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 24, 2017Ovidia Yu, Stewart Dorward, Killer Reads, Harper CollinsComment
Stepchild of the Sublime
Stepchild of the Sublime

Cyril Wong reviews Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).

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Poetry, ReviewJee KohAugust 23, 2017Louise Glück, Cyril Wong, Farrar Straus and GirouxComment
Creating a More Inclusive National Day
Creating a More Inclusive National Day

Esteemed independent journalist Kirsten Han on making National Day truly our own.

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EssayJee KohAugust 21, 2017Kirsten Han, National DayComment
The Impossible Cartoonist
The Impossible Cartoonist

Y.S. Pek explores the different pathways of reading Sonny Liew's Eisner-winning graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye.

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Art, Fiction, CriticismJee KohAugust 20, 2017Y.S. Pek, Sonny LiewComment
Learning to Speak Up for Exactly What You Want
Learning to Speak Up for Exactly What You Want

Inez Tan reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017).

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Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 2, 2017Balli Kaur Jaswal, Inez TanComment
The First Singapore Unbound Fellowship Award Event
The First Singapore Unbound Fellowship Award Event

The first Singapore Unbound Fellowship was presented to Nur Sabrina binte Dzulkifli in a special event in Singapore.

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EventJee KohJuly 24, 2017Nur Sabrina binte Dzulkifli, Joel Bertrand Tan, Pooja Nansi, Teo Xiao Ting, Nuraliah Norasid, Philip Holden, Tan Dan Feng, Constance Singam, Rehina Pereira, Claire Wong, Nabilah Said, Mahirah Abdul Latif, Jon Gresham, Yishio Matsuzaki, Artistry CafeComment
3rd Singapore Poetry Contest Results
3rd Singapore Poetry Contest Results

Announcing the top three winners of the 3rd Singapore Poetry Contest. Three powerful poems about home.

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PoetryJee KohJuly 9, 2017The Singapore Poetry Contest, Sylvia Anne Telfer, Giovanni Santalucia, Meera Chandramouliswaran Comment
Erratic as Thoughts
Erratic as Thoughts

"Erratic as Thoughts: Goh Poh Seng’s Lines from Batu Ferringhi," an essay by Jee Leong Koh

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Essay, PoetryJee KohJuly 4, 2017Goh Poh Seng, Edwin Thumboo, Lee Tzu Pheng, Yong Shu Hoong, Arthur Yap, W. B. Yeats, Aaron Lee Comment
Special Focus - The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap (Part 3)
Special Focus - The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap (Part 3)

"The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap," an essay by Andrew Howdle.

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Essay, PoetryJee KohJune 29, 2017Arthur Yap, Boey Kim Cheng, Cyril Wong, Andrew Howdle, Thom Gunn, Larry GraysonComment
Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 2)
Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 2)

Six more poems set in Leeds, UK, by the Singapore writer and painter Arthur Yap

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PoetryJee KohJune 27, 2017Arthur Yap, NUS Press, Special FocusComment
Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 1)
Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 1)

Six poems set in Leeds, UK, by the Singapore writer and painter Arthur Yap

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PoetryJee KohJune 23, 2017Arthur Yap, NUS PressComment
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Singapore Unbound

A transnational literary organization based in New York City, Singapore Unbound envisions and works for a creative and fulfilling life for everyone through the arts and activism.

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