★★★★☆ Book Review: A Fickle and Restless Weapon by Jason Erik Lundberg
Well-crafted fantasy version of Singapore brings the satire and drama in full force. Singapore is a country that’s often touted as so modern, it belongs in a science fiction film. […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: The Marvellous Sugee Cake by Quek Hong Shin
Lush, colourful illustrations introduces younger readers to the iconic sugee cake and Eurasian culture. If there’s one quintessentially Eurasian cuisine we will always say yes to, it’s sugee cake. Unique […]
Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum and Shanghai Museum jointly present The Baoli Era – Treasures from the Tang Shipwreck
SHANGHAI, CHINA – To commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore, China’s Shanghai Museum and Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum have launched a new joint exhibition, The Baoli […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: The Java Enigma by Erni Salleh
A UNESCO librarian is in for the adventure of her life. Hear me out: librarians are cool people. They’re akin to academics, filled with a bastion of specialised information to […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: Just A Little Mynah by Evelyn Sue Wong and Dhanendra Poedjono
Introducing kids to our multilingual society with the help of a bird park. How often do you get to read a children’s book that features more than one language? With […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: Mr Tino (Volume 1) by Russell Molina and Ian Sta. Maria
An elderly shopkeeper becomes an unlikely superhero in this exciting debut. You know the old adage ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’? Russell Molina and Ian Sta. Maria’s […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam
Queering Malaysian folklore in a fantastical modern day romp. As the youngest, and first non-Singaporean winner of the annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize, Malaysian writer Joshua Kam has a lot […]
★★★☆☆ Book Review: The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human – Tales from Many Muslim Worlds
Writers from around the world come together to showcase the diversity of the lived Muslim experience. Scoured from just about every corner of the world over a period of over […]
★★★★☆ Book Review: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
A freak incident blows open old wounds and dark secrets in this novel about the destruction wreaked by fear and racism. Throughout American history, Asians have always taken the backseat […]
