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How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living

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How We Live Now offers a multi-faceted, multi-voiced view of contemporary life in Singapore: its comforts and conflicts, personal tragedies and social tensions, and also opportunities for joy, hope...

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Potong: To Care/Cut

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 In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the individual’s sense of self comes under scrutiny. In Hawa, a new Muslim convert finds her...

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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

 Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. In a land of many cultures, many races, many religions;...

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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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Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

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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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After the Inquiry

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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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Heartland (new edition)

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Heartland (new edition)

  Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by author Daren Shiau and a publisher’s foreword that contextualises the novel’s imprin...

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Malay Sketches

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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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The Orchid Folios

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The Orchid Folios

  “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 braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the o...

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GAZE BACK

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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020)   What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should ...

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

 Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ...

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Theatres of Memory

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Published by: Pagesetters Services   Most of the old factories are long gone and many workers have retired. Combining history, memory and heritage, Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th C...

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Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election

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Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election

 GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the first Leader of the Opposition. Voting in a Time of Change is part of a longitudi...

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial h...

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Loss Adjustment

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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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17A Keong Saik Road

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17A Keong Saik Road

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

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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Running on Empty: The Story Behind 0.01s

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Running on Empty: The Story Behind 0.01s

“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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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

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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How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living

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Potong: To Care/Cut

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Enjoying Common Life: A Companion

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Enjoying Common Life: A Companion

Two educators, one also a poet, the other also an artist, put together their talents to produce Common Life: Drawings and Poems.  Scenes from everyday life at housing estates and along the streets ...

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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.

Remembering

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Currently all I can think of when I think about International Women's Day is my grandmother. It i...

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In Your Image

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The fight for liberation for both women and queer rights cannot happen if not for our desire to b...

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The past is never far away

Mar 7, 2022

In this place of so many homogenised spaces, I have found my home: a nest for dreaming, a shelter...

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