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A Bad Girl's Book of Animals

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From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Ba...

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 Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs uncovered a game of Russian roulette gone wrong, and the case is now closed. But there are ...

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Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award Malay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham...

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring is a multi-publisher, not-for-profit collaboration that aims to amplify the voices of the Burmese people alongside the ongoing Civil Disobedience Mov...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2022)  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braid...

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Featuring new work from Alfian Sa’at, Christine Chia and Yong Shu Hoong, Some Say, A Tapir recaptures the year 1299 of Singapore’s history. The collection delves into stories—both living and legend...

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A celebration of the slippages, strife and secret histories that make us—for better or worse—who we are. A woman faces off against a xenophobic stranger across a supermarket turnstile.A young girl ...

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 “I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I can’t shake it off. I will commit the worst thing you can ever do to someone who loves you: k...

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 Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in China...

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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey

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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Non-Fiction 2016) Can a life weave along through the same notes and yet come to play forth different sounds? The Sound of SCH (pronounced S-C-H) is the tru...

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“I think I spent more time fighting the system and officials than actually running faster and faster.” —UK Shyam, in an interview with the media in 2004 Running on Empty is a revealing insight int...

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Attunement

Is life hustling you out of tune? As the week roars by, we invite you to a slice of attunement penned lovingly by our authors, friends, and yours truly. Freshly delivered weekly with care. Intimacy guaranteed. Read selected letters below.

Take heart, have courage

Sep 26, 2022

On a trip to Kinokuniya, I chanced upon an interesting book titled Before the coffee gets cold by...

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Fields and Roses

Sep 19, 2022

When I was nine years old, the field behind the coffeeshop we frequented on Sunday afternoons was...

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Badan Khairat: An Important Part Of Growing Up In West Coast

Sep 12, 2022

Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations, or better known as badan khairat to my community, have...

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