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Touch Some Grass
May 7, 2025
We’ve traded that sense of freefall for control, but maybe in the process, we’ve lost the autonom...
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Anguish and Optimism
Apr 23, 2025
It is rare that an author wishes for their work to be irrelevant soon after it is written, but th...
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Cherished Spaces
Mar 18, 2025
In the next month, the monsoon willing, our work will come to fruition.
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Constancy
Feb 24, 2025
If you were like me this morning, you wouldn’t be actively conscious of the sun in the sky. But t...
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Kindred spirits after all
Feb 8, 2025
The comfort of creativity belongs to all and no medium has a monopoly.
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Stepping out, and into 2025
Jan 13, 2025
In 2025, I’m aiming to break free from my bubble of comfort a little more.
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Ethos' Favourite Picks of 2024
Jan 6, 2025
Our favourite picks of the past year to encourage, inspire and comfort.
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Finding Our Feet
Dec 16, 2024
Taking tentative steps at first as 2024 began, having just bid a sad farewell to beloved colleagu...
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Turning the page
Dec 9, 2024
Publishing, I’ve come to realise, isn’t simply about selling a product—it’s about cultivating rel...
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Reflections on a Bus Back to KL
Dec 9, 2024
While I’m still elated from the reception of the book, I also feel a sense of bittersweetness.
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Trust the process of change
Dec 9, 2024
Our lives are not entirely free from hurt or poison, but we can transmute it!
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Neverness and Resonance
Oct 22, 2024
While we may no longer have a place to anchor our memories, we still have books.
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Grief and Love
Oct 22, 2024
When we love much, grief over a loss is so much harder to bear.
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I'll share your time, for a time
Aug 19, 2024
Grief tells me of the depths of my heart’s ability to love, of opening the heart to another being...
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Towards a Singapore that leaves no one behind
Aug 19, 2024
This Pride Month, my plea to you is not to look the other way. Communities like ours get left beh...
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Patient History: A Guide to Luminosity
Aug 19, 2024
In both life and in literature, one must create openness and possibility where there seems to be ...
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A theme park full of organs
Aug 19, 2024
Poetry became, for me, that party in a prison. Learning, not to make light of difficulties, but t...
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Rest is a Luxury We Must Aim to Afford
Aug 19, 2024
When was the last time you managed to rest—to stop and recuperate from your day jobs? To step awa...
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To Build a Democratic Society
Mar 19, 2024
Dear Reader, I realised something was wrong with Singapore’s society when I started volunteeri...
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The future is promising
Mar 13, 2024
Dear Reader, I am inspired by the commitment of young activists that I meet. They are more arti...
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Walking Towards the Truth of Singapore
Mar 13, 2024
Dear Reader, Every day, the world seems to be collapsing a little more. Death and destruction ru...
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Lessons in the soil
Jan 12, 2024
Comings and goings Dear Reader, This past December, I started my new role as editor at Ethos Bo...
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Ethos' Recommended Reads to Close 2023
Dec 29, 2023
As we see the year out, we've rounded up the reads accompanying us as we bid farewell to 2023, an...
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December Showers and Sunshine
Dec 4, 2023
Our beloved colleagues (from left) Ben, Arin, Weilin, Jen and Ariane (and missing Glen), who are...
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A message from our publisher
Dec 4, 2023
Developments at Ethos Books and Pagesetters
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Unbothered, Moisturised, Flourishing
Oct 30, 2023
I knew back then that Prasanthi’s early drafts of stories would eventually be out in the world (...)
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We are born into this world steeped in stories to tell
Oct 23, 2023
Have you ever worked on something for so long that you forgot how it ever began?
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It's the season of change
Oct 9, 2023
I remember the days weren’t always so forgiving, gentle or kind.
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Burnt Toast Theory
Oct 2, 2023
But every now and then, usually when I complain, I get an opinion that shifts my perspective comp...
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Justice, equality and progress for Singapore’s rare disease communities
Sep 25, 2023
I watched myself wither away, drowning in suicidal grief and frustration because I knew the rapid...
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Clarification is lightness
Sep 18, 2023
(yes, we read every submission, this is why, like Sisyphus, we are always trudging up a hill lol)
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I just want to go to Singapore and have tea with you
Sep 11, 2023
crumbs from afar Transnational connections are bittersweet. One of the only ways a friend of min...
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Navigating Different Worlds
Sep 4, 2023
What demarcates a new world, and how do we know when we’ve crossed into one?
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On love letters to home
Aug 28, 2023
Unbeknownst to myself back then, I was yearning for a reason to look back at Singapore and do som...
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Invite Only
Aug 21, 2023
Brothels, the Buckingham Palace, and Antarctica have at least one thing in common:
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The reality we are building is already ours
Aug 14, 2023
In other words, Singapore is just as flawed and human as any one of us.
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One and Many
Aug 7, 2023
So, what is the secret behind this photo and this moment of one-ness?
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The Singapore I Recognise
Aug 4, 2023
I've often wondered if I live in a parallel Singapore from many people.
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A Face is Never Just a Face
Jul 24, 2023
There is something inherently attractive about letting one’s pen trace the form of another person.
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The Power Of Books
Jul 18, 2023
I dream, with Dakota Dreams, with Ethos Dreams, that these vignettes will bring compassion and un...
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Borrowing An Industrial Fan & Other Adventures In Event-Planning
Jul 10, 2023
Events like these can only happen with the support of community
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Is it okay to mourn a life once lived?
Jul 10, 2023
It's clear that I'm not who I used to be and I don't know how to feel about it.
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Giving a chance to the unknown
Jun 26, 2023
Make room for what you can’t orchestrate.
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Wild Messy Growth
Jun 12, 2023
Perhaps we are more changeable—for the better—than we think.
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Am I a good person?
Jun 5, 2023
Are we the mistakes we’ve made?
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Can You Hear Me?
May 29, 2023
Infused within clumsily-used adjectives and lopsided grammar was a desperate need to be understoo...
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A Catalogue Of Many Angers
May 22, 2023
He is the anger of a boy who never understood how to speak his sorrow.
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A Publishing House is a Garden
May 15, 2023
A publishing house is a garden, an exciting garden as limitless as the loves and imaginations of ...
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Laying the Breadcrumb Trail
May 1, 2023
I simply arranged my thoughts about books in a private inner shrine. Showing it to others brought...
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Fighting For The World We Want To Live In
Apr 25, 2023
Together, we can dream up, and then fight for, the world we want to live in.
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