The return to innocence: a response to Lim Lee Ching
In the last couple of weeks, the interweb has been filled with voices arguing about the decision of the National Library Board to first remove, then pulp, then backtrack in spectacular fashion — flip-flopping like the Brazilian back-line during the
The return to innocence: a response to Lim Lee Ching
In the last couple of weeks, the interweb has been filled with voices arguing about the decision of the National Library Board to first remove, then pulp, then backtrack in spectacular fashion — flip-flopping like the Brazilian back-line during the
EDITORIAL: The end of innocence
When we started this Review a little more than two years ago, we had the lofty if naïve notion of wanting to help engage with the idea of a reading culture in, around and hopefully about Singapore. Over the
EDITORIAL: The end of innocence
When we started this Review a little more than two years ago, we had the lofty if naïve notion of wanting to help engage with the idea of a reading culture in, around and hopefully about Singapore. Over the
Retargeting the scope of urban enquiry
“The fantasies of the decline of Paris are a symptom of the fact that technology was not accepted. These visions bespeak the gloomy awareness that along with the great cities have evolved the means to raze them to the
Retargeting the scope of urban enquiry
“The fantasies of the decline of Paris are a symptom of the fact that technology was not accepted. These visions bespeak the gloomy awareness that along with the great cities have evolved the means to raze them to the
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 –
Jeffrey Wainwright – The Reasoner
The world of Jeffrey Wainwright’s The Reasoner tends to be one underlined by controlled and self-assured impulses, whether the poems are dealing with generalised subjects and people or those drawn directly from his own sphere of experience. Reinscribed into the
Jeffrey Wainwright – The Reasoner
The world of Jeffrey Wainwright’s The Reasoner tends to be one underlined by controlled and self-assured impulses, whether the poems are dealing with generalised subjects and people or those drawn directly from his own sphere of experience. Reinscribed into the
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
Cordelia
If Grace Chia’s first collection Womango (1998) is, as its poet’s preface confides, about “the fuel which boils [the poet’s] blood and [her] womanhood,”[1] then what confronts us in Cordelia is a celebration of womanhood “gorgeous / head above water
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,
Southeast Asian Independent Cinema
How can one begin to document a cinema of Southeast Asia that, until the first decade of the 21st century, has been neglected within the international cinematic landscape? Tilman Baumgärtel’s Southeast Asian Independent Cinema:Essays Documents, Interviews (2012), a collection of
Southeast Asian Independent Cinema
How can one begin to document a cinema of Southeast Asia that, until the first decade of the 21st century, has been neglected within the international cinematic landscape? Tilman Baumgärtel’s Southeast Asian Independent Cinema:Essays Documents, Interviews (2012), a collection of
Live in beauty and (im)possibilities
“All I want to do is make poetry famous.” Almost half way through Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman, the eloquent screamer David Lerner’s quote popped up, as I was still busy accepting my fate as a poetry reviewer –
Live in beauty and (im)possibilities
“All I want to do is make poetry famous.” Almost half way through Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman, the eloquent screamer David Lerner’s quote popped up, as I was still busy accepting my fate as a poetry reviewer –
Singapore Review of Books 