Ong Sor Fern

Arts Editor

Sor Fern started at The Straits Times writing about books and has since covered arts and culture as well as film and entertainment. She founded a short-lived tabloid-sized books supplement for the paper and helped conceptualise The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards.

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Tamara Singh of non-profit The Nature Conservancy grew up on David Eddings and Agatha Christie

Ms Tamara Singh with the books she reads at home on Dec 29, 2025, for the ST Life BookTalk column.

6 highlights from National Gallery Singapore’s Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise

The exhibition is on from Jan 9 to Nov 15 and admission is free.

National Gallery Singapore’s new show highlights five pioneering women artists from the region

Indonesian artist Dolorosa Sinaga’s bronze sculpture We Will Fight (2004/2025) is situated outside the gallery’s doors in the Spine Hall.

Time to shut down the Singapore Biennale?

One of three shop units at Lucky Plaza housing Singapore Biennale works.

Contrasting takes on masculinity in David Szalay’s Flesh and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

Hungarian-British author David Szalay (left) with his book, Flesh, and Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro.

City Lines art show highlights artists’ different takes on Singapore cityscape

Idris Ali's HDB Heartland (2000) is part of the City Lines show at Maya Gallery.

Merry Christmas in verse: Singapore poets on taxes and the holidays

(Clockwise from top left) Lee Tzu Pheng, Yong Shu Hoong, Marylyn Tan, Theophilus Kwek, Aaron Maniam and Wahid Al Mamun have penned poetry about taxes and Christmas.

Ong Sor Fern’s top reads of 2025: Meihan Boey, Natsuo Kirino and Lev Grossman

(From left) Authors Meihan Boey, Natsuo Kirino, and Lev Grossman.

3Pumpkins founder Lin Shiyun sets a KPI for reading and carves out time to meet it

sftalk20/ST20251209_202547400842/Ng Sor Luan/Lin Shiyun, founder of Tak Takut Kids Club on what she is reading.

The Buy Now, Pay Later Award goes to the SG Culture Pass initiative

Theatre archival photography. Photo credits: Tuckys Photography.

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