Literature

Christopher Nolan and the anxiety of making The Odyssey, filmed entirely in IMAX

Director Christopher Nolan (left) on the set of The Odyssey.

Singaporean ex-teacher Joyce Chng, 51, shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards

Joyce Chng’s retrospective collection Wolf’s Path (2025) is one of five candidates in the Best Collection category in the British Fantasy Awards.

Six Georgians jailed for theft of rare Russian books in France

A 1842 first edition of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls at the Tartu University Library in Tartu, Estonia, on April 29, 2024. Valuable works by Russian masters have been disappearing from libraries across Europe.

Was a story that just won a literary prize AI-generated?

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize drew attention from readers who suspected that one of its winning stories, The Serpent In The Grove, was written by AI.

Cultural Medallion recipient J.M. Sali, pillar of Tamil literature, dies aged 87

J.M. Sali received the Cultural Medallion for Literary Arts in 2012.

Over 1,100 SingLit book titles added to SG Culture Pass list

Book displays bearing SG Culture Pass stickers at the Books Kinokuniya main store in Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

BookTalk

Creative producer Natalie Tan relaxes with classic literature and shoujo manga

Ms Natalie Tan with her current reads – Charlotte Bronte’s Vilette on her Kobo, and romance manga In The Clear Moonlit Dusk by Mika Yamamori on her tablet.

Rare Jin Yong, Gu Long manuscripts on display at wuxia exhibition, part of City Reading@SG festival

Original manuscripts by Jin Yong and Gu Long, rarely accessible to the public, will be on display at the wuxia exhibition.

Stolen letters that Romantic poet John Keats sent to his beloved are found

The book was stolen and its location became a mystery for nearly 40 years.

New $20m grant for multicultural arts; 5-year NIE study on how the arts affect students’ brains

Singapore International Festival of Arts' opening act at Bedok.

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