My Book of the Year 2016

32 Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers, living in Singapore and abroad, pick their favorite read of the year.

My Book of the Year 2015

33 Singaporean writers, artists, and scholars recommend their favorite read in 2015.

Stand Up for Something

Alfian Sa'at speaks at the Singapore Writers Festival in Singapore about the academics, artists, and writers who suspect that they have been denied job or tenure or asked to leave their job because of their activism or criticism of the government.

PoliticsJee KohNovember 9, 2017Alfian Sa'at, Lee Tzu Pheng, Singapore Writers Festival, Censorship

Is Singapore blacklisting its critical academics and writers?

Would any of Singapore's writers raise questions at the Singapore Writers Festival, opening in Singapore in two days, about this list of censored academics and artists?

PoliticsJee KohNovember 1, 2017Tan Tarn How, Cherian George, Ethos Books

Glass Orchestra

An interview with sound artist Zul Mahmod.

ArtJee KohOctober 28, 2017Zul MahmodComment

The Spectral Supplement

Ian Tan reviews Donald Breckenridge’s And Then (USA: David R. Godine, 2017).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohOctober 24, 2017Ian Tan, Donald Breckenridge, David R. Godine

Thaipusam Babies

Ramsundar Lakshminarayanan's photographic series.

PhotographyJee KohOctober 18, 2017Ramsundar LakshminarayananComment

"If you go deep enough..."

Stewart Dorward reviews Philip Holden’s Heaven Has Eyes (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohOctober 12, 2017Philip Holden, Stewart Dorward, Epigram BooksComment

RE: Action

An Opinion piece by Jill J. Tan on how Singaporeans living in the U.S. can respond to American politics. The first of a regular political column appearing once every two months.

Politics, OpinionJee KohOctober 9, 2017Jill J. Tan, Las Vegas shooting, abortionComment

The Frontier as Covered Ground

Ian Tan reviews Carl Phillips’ Reconnaissance (USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohOctober 5, 2017Ian Tan, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and GirouxComment

Rubik's Cube

Stewart Dorward reviews The Adopted: Stories from Angkor by HENG Siok Tian, PHAN Ming Yen, YEOW Kai Chai, and YONG Shu Hoong (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2015).