Fiction

Book review

Rachel Tey’s debut Finding Chopin a bland narrative experiment

Rachel Tey is a freelance book editor, writer and the author of the children’s series, Tea In Pajamas. She is currently working on her master’s thesis and her new novella.

The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up

In the wizarding world, good people like Harry Potter represent liberal values in a contest against darker forces embodied by Lord Voldemort, says the writer.

City Of Others author Jared Poon thinks civil service bureaucrats are sexy and magical

Singaporean writer Jared Poon's debut novel City Of Others follows a middle manager bureaucrat engaging with his unlikely stakeholders – the supernatural inhabitants of Singapore.

Singapore writer Ratna Damayanti Taha wins Epigram Books Fiction Prize with debut novel

Ratna Damayanti Taha’s debut novel Mind The Gap beat more than 50 other manuscripts from across South-east Asia.

Book review

Yeng Pway Ngon’s last novel The Colour Of Twilight confronts a Chinese writer’s obsolescence

The late Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon’s final novel. The Colour Of Twilight, has been translated into English by Jeremy Tiang.

DallerGut author Miye Lee goes from healing fiction to psychological thriller

SingLit in 2026: A video game anthology, new book by Teo You Yenn, Epigram’s all-women shortlist

(Clockwise from left) We Saw Mountains by Diana Rahim, Chia Joo Ming and Theophilus Kwek.

250 Years of Jane Austen

FILE — Costumed attendees take photos with a large flower arrangement during the Grand Regency Costumed Promenade at the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England, on Sept. 12, 2025. To capture the writer’s brief life and enormous impact, we assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives. (Peter Flude/The New York Times)

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.

Clement Yong’s top reads of 2025: Kiran Desai, Rickey Fayne and Wen-yi Lee

(From left) The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny by Kiran Desai, The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne and When They Burned The Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee.

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