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Book review

Deeply human portrait of Singapore’s second president Benjamin Sheares

Professor Benjamin Sheares of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Malaya, Singapore.
Professor Benjamin Sheares of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Malaya, Singapore.

Fun With Kids

Chinese New Year: Hotpot-themed playground, Mofusand AR filters, fantasy graphic novel

Get free Mofusand-themed AR filters, bounce on a hotpot-themed inflatable and read The Dragon's Eyes graphic novel.
Get free Mofusand-themed AR filters, bounce on a hotpot-themed inflatable and read The Dragon's Eyes graphic novel.

Ex-restaurateur Lim Tse Wei on the labour and pleasures behind the Little Perfections of S’pore food

US-based Singaporean writer and ex-restaurateur Lim Tse Wei's debut book of essays Little Perfections: Eating In Singapore (2025) brings economics to the centre of the hawker conversation.
US-based Singaporean writer and ex-restaurateur Lim Tse Wei's debut book of essays Little Perfections: Eating In Singapore (2025) brings economics to the centre of the hawker conversation.

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.
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.

SG Culture Pass should open new windows – don’t narrow its potential

Singapore International Festival Of Arts' Bedok Pavilion showed that people can be enthralled by "high" art.
Singapore International Festival Of Arts' Bedok Pavilion showed that people can be enthralled by "high" art.

Book review

‘Hello, polis’: Jared Poon’s City Of Others unlocks hidden dimensions in Singapore urban fantasy

City Of Others by Jared Poon.
City Of Others by Jared Poon.

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

Book Talk

‘Pain demands to be felt’: Author John Green’s quote a constant reminder to writer Sherry Toh

Sherry Toh contributed an essay to disability studies anthology Not Without Us (2023).
Sherry Toh contributed an essay to disability studies anthology Not Without Us (2023).

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