Category Archives: Feature
The Transformation of the World
The 19th century, or indeed any span of time, does not neatly correspond to a tangible experience in the way that a day or a year does. Rather, the century, 1801-1900, is a creature of the calendar, a convenient, but
The Transformation of the World
The 19th century, or indeed any span of time, does not neatly correspond to a tangible experience in the way that a day or a year does. Rather, the century, 1801-1900, is a creature of the calendar, a convenient, but
Feature: Behind the Green Door
In the foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of Ernest Callenbach’s now famous novel Ecotopia (1975), the mother of all contemporary environmental utopian novels, Malcolm Margolin offers an attempt to pin down the novel’s strange enduring appeal. Margolin suggests that
Feature: Behind the Green Door
In the foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of Ernest Callenbach’s now famous novel Ecotopia (1975), the mother of all contemporary environmental utopian novels, Malcolm Margolin offers an attempt to pin down the novel’s strange enduring appeal. Margolin suggests that
Feature: Teach me tonight…
One thing isn’t very clear, my love Should the teacher stand so near, my love? — Dinah Washington Every so often — and with seemingly increasing regularity — our news feeds are inundated with what can be loosely termed
Feature: Teach me tonight…
One thing isn’t very clear, my love Should the teacher stand so near, my love? — Dinah Washington Every so often — and with seemingly increasing regularity — our news feeds are inundated with what can be loosely termed
Why you should read: Adam Tooze’s The Deluge
The Habsburg Empire’s declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914 was its last independent political act. Four years later, and after seven centuries as a permanent fixture of the European political order, the tottering Habsburg Empire would finally
Why you should read: Adam Tooze’s The Deluge
The Habsburg Empire’s declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914 was its last independent political act. Four years later, and after seven centuries as a permanent fixture of the European political order, the tottering Habsburg Empire would finally
Why you should read: John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
I was recently introduced to Cannery Row at a book club. As the only non-white person there, and coincidentally of Chinese descent, I was very curious about my fellow readers’ thoughts on the two Chinese characters in the book –
Why you should read: John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
I was recently introduced to Cannery Row at a book club. As the only non-white person there, and coincidentally of Chinese descent, I was very curious about my fellow readers’ thoughts on the two Chinese characters in the book –
Feature: Reading Jeremy Fernando
By Jeremy Fernando… If writing is of the order of death, and reading is the order of life — or a reviving, resuscitation, even necromancy — then the question that is opened is: what happens in-between? Or, perhaps more
Feature: Reading Jeremy Fernando
By Jeremy Fernando… If writing is of the order of death, and reading is the order of life — or a reviving, resuscitation, even necromancy — then the question that is opened is: what happens in-between? Or, perhaps more
Feature: The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien
There have been many attempts at anthologizing the works of Brian O’Nolan. Most of the anthologies collect the work of O’Nolan as a newspaper man – The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn and The Hair of Dogma,
Feature: The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien
There have been many attempts at anthologizing the works of Brian O’Nolan. Most of the anthologies collect the work of O’Nolan as a newspaper man – The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn and The Hair of Dogma,
BDSM goes to college, but doesn’t enrol in Camille Paglia’s class
No longer only the province of psychiatrists and pornographers, BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadomasochism) is a burgeoning subject for sexuality studies. This interest is warranted. Sadomasochism is deeply ingrained culturally, with binary-gendered character types deriving from early twentieth-century sexological
BDSM goes to college, but doesn’t enrol in Camille Paglia’s class
No longer only the province of psychiatrists and pornographers, BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadomasochism) is a burgeoning subject for sexuality studies. This interest is warranted. Sadomasochism is deeply ingrained culturally, with binary-gendered character types deriving from early twentieth-century sexological
Why you should read: The Map and the Territory
Michael Kearney drinks in the multifaceted cartography of Michel Houellebecq’s making (you have to let your brain absorb all of the elements of the parenthetical setting in one go). By What Hodological Map Should I Read This? I was reading
Why you should read: The Map and the Territory
Michael Kearney drinks in the multifaceted cartography of Michel Houellebecq’s making (you have to let your brain absorb all of the elements of the parenthetical setting in one go). By What Hodological Map Should I Read This? I was reading
Why you should read: The Importance of Being Earnest
W!ld Rice Singapore’s 2013 staging of Oscar Wilde’s classic play got the Singapore Review of Book‘s Jeremy Fernando thinking about being nice to colleagues. On being too earnest… There is nothing more annoying than a colleague demonstrating that (s)he is
Why you should read: The Importance of Being Earnest
W!ld Rice Singapore’s 2013 staging of Oscar Wilde’s classic play got the Singapore Review of Book‘s Jeremy Fernando thinking about being nice to colleagues. On being too earnest… There is nothing more annoying than a colleague demonstrating that (s)he is
Singapore Review of Books 