Authors

Description About the Author In 2009, the family of the late Lee Kip Lin donated to the National Library Board, Singapore over 14,500 slides an...

Description Praise About the Author Little Perfections romps through the hawker centres, home kitchens, and restaurants of Singapore, tasting e...

Description Praise About the Author Does this sound familiar? “I don’t want to practice!” “My child used to love going for music lessons, but ...

Description About the Author Eleven-year-old Ying Xiong’s name means ‘hero’. And that’s what he wants to be. But what’s the best way to be a he...

Description About the Author Almost 200 years ago, an Englishman by the name of Stamford Raffles landed on the shores of Singapore and the rest...

Description About the Author This collection of short stories celebrates the Merdeka Generation. These are the baby boomers born a little after...

Description About the Author Tiny Rice Grains explores the human side of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Given the business case that di...

Description About the Author Before Sunrise meets Love Hard in this RomCom set on a walking tour of Manila, Philippines. Sophia Eunice “Piayaya...

Description About the Author Compilation and Autobiography of a Tattoo Artist Casiline Ang is the accomplished founder of Divine Tattoo Studio,...

Description About the Co-editors This book is jointly edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, and Ms Lee Huay Leng, Ed...

Description About the Author Unlike his previous publications, this present book is not about policies and politics in Singapore. Instead, it b...

Description About the Author The deteriorating quality of governance in Singapore has worried many in this country. It is clear that the anachr...

Description About the Author A thought-provoking graphic novel that explores the complex relationships between individuals and the intricacies ...

Description About the Author Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta – home to over 10 million people with more than 30 million in its greater metr...

Description In 2017, I started my research on the fate of granduncle Silvestr Nemec, a young Czech employed by the Bata Show Company in Singapo...

Description About the Author A captivating story written and illustrated by a mother-and-daughter team about coping with disappointment, helpin...

Description About the Author Part-primer, part-history and part-GE2025 critique, the book is a must-read for students of Singapore politics, el...

Description About the Author Gwee Li Sui’s eclectic journal in verse recounts the entire COVID-19 pandemic as experienced in Singapore. Setting...

Description About the Author This is a story of journeys. It is about my journey through grief and acceptance after I lost my wife to cancer in...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Chrystal Ho delivers a debut that is both urgent and inti...

Description Praise About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016, Non-Fiction Can a life weave along through the same notes an...

Description Praise About Mynah Magazine Mynah 5 is the fifth volume from Mynah Magazine, an independent publication for deeply reported non-fic...

Description Praise About the Editors Looming milestones and missed connections. Resisting mainstream expectations and doing life at your own pa...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Look inside the book (English) Ready, Kueh Set, Go! is an energetic tale that follows five young...

Description Look inside the magazine They refer not to the green of chendol or the red of mee goreng but the riot of colourful melamine plates ...

Description Look inside the magazine The essays in this collection were first published on my now-defunct blog, Tuckshop, between 2015 and 2018...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine Cinema has always been an immense source of inspiration when it comes to creative p...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine This issue of Now & Again delves into the concept of The Uncanny — the elusive ...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine This edition of Now & Again adopts the approach of the Exquisite Corpse, a coll...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine Sound - the noises we hear in common spaces, processes shaping the creation of musi...

Description "Considering how it is almost taboo in many parts of the world today, our decision to study the straw is admittedly, not entirely w...

Description “These days, there is a lot of confusion and discussion about different reading formats. They often weary us with their variations,...

Description “Very few things in our everyday thrive by doing absolutely nothing. The floor might just be a rare exception; devoid of any vitali...

Description “It is true that the pleasures of consumption have always been accompanied by the burdens of rubbish. This can be considered a mode...

Description “To remove their rubbish, human beings have long since relied on the bin: they fill it up with all sorts of garbage and when it is ...