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Thursday, 31 March 2022

Oral History as a Practice of Care: Theatres of Memory from Singapore's industrial history

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  Block 115 Commonwealth Drive, Singapore's first flatted factory. Editor's note: Our poetry column takes a break this month as I di...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

Wesley Leon Aroozoo Shares His Inspiration for "The Punkhawala and the Prostitute"

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

The House of Little Sisters: Eva Wong Nava Writes About The Challenges of Writing YA Historical Fiction

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Thank you, Elaine Chiew, for the invitation to share about the challenges and issues in regard to writing historical fiction for a teenage a...
Sunday, 13 March 2022

Jokowi and the New Indonesia: How the world sees an Indonesian President Guest post from Tim Hannigan

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UK-based Tim Hannigan writes mainly about Asia, especially Indonesia. He is the author of three history books: Murder in the Hindu Kush ; Ra...
Sunday, 6 March 2022

Shanghai by Riichi Yokomitsu - a Japanese Novel of Interwar Shanghai

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 Shanghai between the world wars is a fascination of Westerns, the Chinese themselves, but also the Japanese. The zeitgeist of 1920s Shangha...
Friday, 4 March 2022

TEXTURES 2022: AN INTERDISCPLINARY APPROACH TO LITERATURE & ART IN THE SINGAPORE HEARTLANDS

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The fifth edition of TEXTURES (4 March 4 to 3 April) returns with the theme  The Great Escape , opening in six Festival Pavilion locations (...
Monday, 28 February 2022

Everything you always wanted to know about Chinese literature in translation, by Nicky Harman

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Full disclosure: I’m devoting my blog this month to a personal project, The Paper Republic Guide To Contemporary Chinese Literature. Trans...