In “Mind the Gap”: Exploring Hwee Hwee Tan’s Portrayal of Cultural Tensions in a Modern, Globalising World,” one of the three winners of the 3rd Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Kelly Sng argues that Tan’s novels raise provocative questions about the limits of transnational capitalism and cultural fluidity in a modern, globalizing world.
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 3rd Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, “Chosen One’s Chosen Pronouns: Queer Identity as Messianic Belief in Neon Yan,” by Tan Yan Rong, examines the intersection of gender and religion, truth and belief, in Neon Yang’s Genesis of Misery and A Stick of Clay.
Read MoreThe exciting recovery of a previously unknown book-length poem by a Singaporean who migrated to Australia. Gwee Li Sui, the editor of A Walk with My Pig, describes the recovery not only of the work but also of the poet Mervin Mirapuri.
Read MoreWhat is gold if it is not a color nor a metal? In this essay Max Pasakorn wonders and wanders into an answer.
Read MoreIn this new essay, Jasmine Gui examines the myth of the successful diasporic Asian artist in her own life.
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Katherine Enright’s essay analyzes Ng Yi-Sheng’s short story “Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist” as a subversion of the conventions of Victorian plant fiction and of the orchid as a Singaporean national symbol.
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Quek Yee Kiat’s paper is a study of selected rewritings of myths in Singapore and their re-significations, encompassing two interconnecting themes––“Fearless Females” and “Queering Hybrids.”
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Timothy Wan’s essay uses Pearl Bank as a focal point to offer a reconsideration of how Singaporeans engage with nostalgia.
Read MoreIn this essay on the late Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam, Daryl Lim Wei Jie considers how death acted for the poet as “a catalyst of deeper truths about the exilic migrant condition that he perceived himself to be stranded in – and the broader human condition.”
Read MoreIn “Dear Pluto,” Susan L. Lin writes to the Death Planet about her plans to visit it in the distant future.
Read More“Singapore's climb from a Third World country to a First World nation was made easier, thanks to the escalator.”
Read MoreAmanat is a groundbreaking anthology featuring the stories of women writers from Kazakhstan over the past thirty years.
Read MoreIn “My Story,” Burmese rights advocate Ningja Khon relates how she ran afoul of the Myanmar’s military junta and had to escape the country to southern Thailand before ending up in the US.
Read Moreila explores through writing and photography the local spiritualities in Singapore.
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