Non-Fiction

Description "...but what does it mean to drink? Do we drink with our skin when the hands are hugging the cup? Are we drinking with our body pos...

Description "In general, there are two different kinds of clocks. The first tells time in the form of a common factor that most of us can relat...

Description For the first instalment of a building-centric research initiative under the Science of the Secondary series, the common Door, Wind...

Description For the first instalment of a building-centric research initiative under the Science of the Secondary series, the common Door, Wind...

Description "Ever since the egg has been perverted as a rich and readily available source of food for human beings, we have not thought much of...

Description "Among the many clothing types in our wardrobe, none leads a more unappreciated existence than the sock. Wavering between undergarm...

Description "In spite of the plate’s supposed ubiquity, very little is known and discussed of this practical tableware beyond fine craftsmanshi...

Description "The life of toilet paper is fundamentally short-lived; smeared with shit and left to disintegrate in smelly water, it is found in ...

Description "With its near-phallic shape stirring in most fully-grown adults sexual imageries condemned by many religious and proper people, th...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 This issue of Now & Again delves into the concept of The Uncanny — the elusive ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Contributors Ten world-renowned photographers.Two acclaimed writers.One timeless Himalayan kingdom. Bhutan: Portrait of a Kingdom i...