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The Frontier as Covered Ground
The Frontier as Covered Ground: A Review of Carl Phillips’ Reconnaissance by Ian Tan There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so...
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“Singapore Unbound”– 2nd Singapore Literature Festival in NYC (Sep 28 – Oct...
We’re very excited to announce the program for the 2nd Singapore Literature Festival in NYC. This independent, biennial festival in New York brings together Singaporean and American authors and...
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Whose Home?
Review of And the Walls Come Crumbling Down by Tania De Rozario (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2016), 123 pages by Siham Karami The title of this compelling memoir, an allusion to the...
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New Poems by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
The poems below by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé will appear in his forthcoming collection Reading to Ted Hesburgh (Squircle Line Press and Glass Lyre Press, 2017). f is for form and finitude by...
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“Tepid Water”
Review of We Were Always Eating Expired Things by Cheryl Julia Lee (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2014) By R. A. Briggs Cheryl Julia Lee’s first collection, shortlisted for this year’s...
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Meet the Author at Brooklyn Book Fest
Award-winning fiction writer, playwright and translator, Jeremy Tiang will be signing books at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 18, 1:00 pm, at Singapore Unbound Booth #126. Tiang’s...
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Literarily Singapore
In conjunction with the 2nd Singapore Literature Festival in NYC (Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2016), Lambda Literary has just published a “Singapore Literary Portfolio.” Featuring three festival authors, the...
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Malaysia Boleh: The Politics of National Literature & Language
Talk delivered on September 30, 2016, by Sheela Jane Menon at “Contexts and Texts: Writing and Translating in Malaysia and Singapore,” co-presented by Jini Kim Watson and New York University’s...
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Singapore Poetry Is 3 Today!
I started this blog 3 years ago on October 15, 2013 with the aim of introducing Singaporean literature and arts to an American audience. The aim has since broadened to encompass cultural exchange...
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Pocket Universe
Review of Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asia Speculative Fiction, Issue #6, edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Adan Jimenez (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016) by Eric Norris In...
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An Open Letter to NBDCS and My Fellow Shortlisted Authors
My book Steep Tea was not submitted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize because of a mistake made by my publisher. Not knowing the mistake, I had reasonably expected my book to be shortlisted in...
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Magical Ability
Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik (USA: Del Rey Books, 2015) by Ovidia Yu Uprooted is a standalone fantasy novel with a refreshingly unique magic system backed up by credible internal logic. It has...
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Sugarbread
Review of Sugarbread by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2015) by Caroline Chang Sugarbread is Balli Kaur Jaswal’s second novel to be published, but it was written first. It captures,...
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Puppy Killer
Review of Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu (United States: William Morrow, 2016) by Stewart Dorward Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge is the third of the Aunty Lee murder mysteries by Ovidia Yu, one...
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The Future of Singapore Literature
Lecture by GWEE Li Sui at the double-bill SWF Lecture: Unwritten Country on 5 November 2016. The other lecture was Boey Kim Cheng’s “Reflections of a Returnee”. GWEE is a Singaporean poet, graphic...
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Speaking Against
Review of Cyril Wong’s The Lover’s Inventory (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2015) by Andrew Howdle Since the biennial Singapore Literary Prize expanded into categories, it has favoured joint winners...
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Poetry After the Fall
Review of Belmont by Stephen Burt (USA: Graywolf Press, 2013) by Ng Yi-Sheng It’s thoroughly strange to review a book like this in a world where Donald Trump’s just been elected President. Over the...
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Writing the South Seas
Introduction by Philip Holden Research work on Singapore Literature is increasingly exploring connections across languages and national borders, rather than within a single English-language literary...
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Heaven Has Eyes
Library by Philip Holden She had never thought, she told her parents later, that she could fall. Late summer, and the banks of the river were thick with blackberries. She tasted some greedily on the...
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My Book of the Year 2016
For Singapore Poetry’s 3rd Annual Books Round-up, we again asked Singaporean writers, artists, and thinkers, living in Singapore and abroad, for their favorite read of the year. The book does not have...
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