Fiction

‘I really hated my job’: Author Jade Song talks advertising and burnt offerings to the dead

Author Jade Song says her new novel, I Love You Don't Die, is a mix of personal experiences and fiction.

Book review

Deepa Anappara dives into minds of coloniser and colonised in Tibet-set The Last Of Earth

Indian author Deepa Anappara's historical novel The Last Of Earth has been designated by BBC as one of its top 2026 reads.

Book review

In Dorothy Tse’s chilling City Like Water, Hong Kong cannot remember itself

Hong Kong writer Dorothy Tse's latest book City Like Water is a surrealist novella in which a Hong Kong-like city is inundated with water.

Singapore Literature Prize trims categories from 18 to 8, raises prize money to $5,000

Prasanthi Ram receiving her award from Meira Chand at the Singapore Literature Prize ceremony in 2024.

$539k of SG Culture Pass credits spent on SingLit; call for inclusion of non-fiction titles

Book displays bearing SG Culture Pass stickers at Books Kinokuniya in Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

Meet Gene Png, the Singaporean translating South Korean feminist bestsellers into English

Singaporean translator Gene Png translated South Korean bestsellers like The Legend Of Lady Byeoksa into English.

Book Talk

A chance find at Kinokuniya led fashion model Kaci Beh to pick up reading again

Kaci Beh with Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney, a thriller she says keeps her "hooked and guessing".

Persepolis, Shah Of Shahs and The Rubaiyat: 7 books to read about Iran’s culture and history

(Clockwise from top left) Persepolis books one and two by Marjane Satrapi, My Uncle Napoloen by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Shah Of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald, Black Wave by Kim Ghattas, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2017) by Samin Nosrat.

TBR (To Be Read)

How a 1,000-page Paul Auster novel converted me to ‘healing fiction’

Auster follows the life of voracious reader Archibald Isaac Ferguson, nee 1947, and splinters his life into four versions, every one just slightly different from the other.

Book review

Nature misbehaves in Diana Rahim’s political short story collection We Saw Mountains

The eclectic clutch of nine stories are united by author Diana Rahim's unique worldview.

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