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Description Praise About the Editors Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combin...

Description Praise About the Author Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-75 is both a personal and public memoir; it is personal as it records par...

Description Praise About the Author Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven int...

Description Praise About the Author Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. Often h...

Description Praise About the Author Ram has been ignored and dismissed his entire life. His parents patronise him, his older brother belittle...

Description About the Author Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate...

Description Praise About the Editors Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Undenia...

Description Praise About the Editors Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we think w...

“Each story invites readers to enter into the world of marginal yet strangely familiar figures, to explore the possibilities of empathy, and thus t...

Description About the Authors Khairat Kita documents the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing aid an...

Description About the Editor How We Live Now offers a multi-faceted, multi-voiced view of contemporary life in Singapore: its comforts and conf...

Description About the Author In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the indiv...

Description Praise About the Author Where I Was is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. I...

Description Praise About the Editors Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapp...

Description About the Author Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by au...

Description About the Editor From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to ...

Description About the Author GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the...

Description Praise About the Author Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs un...

Description About the Editors Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does...

Description Praise About the Author “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last eveni...

Description Praise About the Editor In this era of the climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imper...

Description Praise About the Author This new edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the aut...

Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that w...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...