Courtesy of Author Book Synopsis The stories in Agnes Chew’s first fiction collection illuminate the complexity of choice when duty and desi...

A  collection of interviews, photographs, essays and personal reflections,  Khairat Kita  is a project documenting the last few remaining Ma...

Source:Wikicommons, Movie Poster Maxine Hong Kingston’s  The Woman Warrior  (The Library of America, repr. 2022) had this one line, “Girls a...

Felix Cheong, courtesy of author   About the Author: Felix Cheong has written 23 books across different genres, including poetry, short stor...

As the saying goes, “History is written by the victors” and with that the stories and documentations of the forgotten or lesser regarded in ...

Thank you, Elaine Chiew, for the invitation to share about the challenges and issues in regard to writing historical fiction for a teenage a...

The fifth edition of TEXTURES (4 March 4 to 3 April) returns with the theme  The Great Escape , opening in six Festival Pavilion locations (...

  Darling, You're Fabulous: An Hour With Tan France A most enjoyable hour long chat moderated very smoothly by Maya Menon with Queer Eye...

Ken Hickson reviews recent titles published in Singapore, but with wide international appeal.

5th: Opening Night Marc Nair as host. Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth & Trade & Industry Ms. Low Yen Ling spoke a...

It's that time of the year again — November — my birthday month and also the fantabulous Singapore Writers' Festival extravaganza (5...

Singapore At Home: Life Across Lines  (Kitaab, 2021), edited by Pallavi Narayan and Iman Fahim Hameed (cover artwork by Pallavi Narayan), bl...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore, so we occasionally highlight book-related events in the city. Celebrating Forty Years of Transformin...

Joining the exalted ranks of past winners such as O Thiam Chin, Nuraliah Norasid and Yeoh Jo-Ann, are the just-announced joint winners of th...

Lion City Lit By Ken Hickson Travel is on our mind and in our readings. And while we don’t usually include poets, plays or painters...

Words matter. Whether it’s a climate change meeting, an international energy exhibition or the Singapore Writers’ Festival (SWF). The Lions...

The honour of giving the Festival Prologue at SWF 2019 this year went to Marlon James and as literary prestige goes, Marlon James gets...

This month, our regular column Lion City Lit unearths a new word – an acronym really - to collectively bring together what’s going on in Si...

Award-winning author Dato’ Dr M SHANmughalingam —or Dato' Shan, as he is affably known—had his first solo collection of short stories la...

Why do we go to readings? To hear an author’s words in their own voice. To discover new contexts, new stories, and new ways of reading stori...