Twisted Stories

Intan Paramaditha reviews Kitchen Curse by Eka Kurniawan (USA: Verso Books, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohMarch 9, 2020Intan Paramaditha, Eka Kurniawan, Verso BooksComment

Only the Poets Know Brooklyn

Edward Moran on poetry and Brooklyn in the plague years.

EssayJee KohMarch 2, 2020Edward Moran, Marianne Moore, Walt Whitman, Hyam Plutzik, Brooklyn Comment

Thoughts of the Future

Lim Xin Hwee reviews Cynthia Arrieu-King’s Futureless Languages (USA: Radiator Press, 2018).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohFebruary 17, 2020Lim Xin Hwee, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Radiator PressComment

Born for Duets

Ranjani Rao reviews Pico Iyer’s Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells (USA: Knopf, 2019).

Memoir, ReviewJee KohFebruary 10, 2020Pico Iyer, Ranjani Rao, Knopf, JapanComment

"Tepid Water"

R. A. Briggs reviews We Were Always Eating Expired Things by Cheryl Julia Lee (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2014).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohFebruary 3, 2020R. A. Briggs, Cheryl Julia Lee, Math Paper PressComment

Seeds of Hope

Priscilla King reviews In This Desert, There Were Seeds edited by Jon Gresham and Elizabeth Tan (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohJanuary 27, 2020Priscilla King, Jon Gresham, Elizabeth Tan, Ethos BooksComment

Dream Diary

Andy Winter reviews The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi (USA: Yale University Press, 2019).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohJanuary 20, 2020Andy Winter, Yanyi, Yale University PressComment

Losing the Game of Racism

Prasanthi Ram reviews Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues (USA: Counterpoint, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohJanuary 13, 2020Devi S. Laskar, Prasanthi Ram, Counterpoint PressComment

Art Is + Symin Adive

Artist Symin Adive on re-imagining Mughal miniatures, familial disconnect, and coming into one's own power.

Art, InterviewJee KohJanuary 6, 2020Symin Adive, Jade OnnComment

What Will Save the World

Dhanya Lingesh reviews The Overstory by Richard Powers (USA: W.W. Norton, 2018).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohDecember 30, 2019Richard Powers, Dhanya Lingesh, W.W. NortonComment

Sounds of Want & Pain

Samantha Neugebauer reviews Topaz Winters’ Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (2019).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohDecember 23, 2019Topaz Winters, Samantha NeugebauerComment

Bounty and Infinite Grace

Mia Ayumi Malhotra reviews Aria and Trumpet Flourish by Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr. (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2018).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohDecember 16, 2019Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr., Math Paper Press, Mia Ayumi MalhotraComment

Speaking of Cloches

Ho Zhi Hui reviews Carnegie Hill by Jonathan Vatner (USA: Thomas Dunne Books, 2019).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohDecember 9, 2019Jonathan Vatner, Thomas Dunne Books, Ho Zhi HuiComment

My Book of the Year 2019

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

Both Monster and Landscape

Max Pasakorn reviews bury it by sam sax (USA: Wesleyan University Press, 2018).

Adjusting for the Loss

Pooja Shah reviews Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2019).

Memoir, ReviewJee KohNovember 18, 2019Linda Collins, Pooja Shah, Ethos Books Comment

Field Notes from Chew Jetty

Sim Jui Liang writes up his field notes from two visits, four years apart, to Chew Jetty, a water village on stilts in Penang, Malaysia.

EssayJee KohNovember 11, 2019Sim Jui Liang, Penang, Chew Jetty, Malaysia, TourismComment

Foolish Questions

Theophilus Kwek reviews Stanley Moss's It’s About Time (New York: Hopewell, 2015 and Manchester: Carcanet, 2016)

Poetry, ReviewJee KohOctober 28, 2019Stanley Moss, Theophilus Kwek, Hopewell, CarcanetComment

Heaven Has Eyes

Short story by Philip Holden.

FictionJee KohOctober 21, 2019Philip Holden, Epigram BooksComment

Hold Them With A Smile

Stewart Dorward on the spirituality in the writings of Cyril Wong.

EssayJee KohOctober 14, 2019Stewart Dorward, Cyril WongComment

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